7 reasons to use emoticons in your writing and social media, according to science

The Next Web
By Courtney SeiterJan 25, 2015, 1:30 pm351 pts
This post originally appeared on the Buffer blog. Do you remember seeing your first emoticon? The first documented use of “:-)” dates back to 1982, when Scott Fahlman proposed that it be used as a “joke marker” on a message board for Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists. Here’s his…

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