Emoticons are increasingly being supplanted by emojis in digital communication. This is conclusion of a FORSA survey on behalf of German Language society. Instead of faces that are composed of punctuation and special characters, users use prefabricated pictograms for example in chats.
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According to survey, for both women and men, loosening of communication comes first when using emojis. But re are also differences: women are expression of ir feelings important, men, on or hand, use emojis and emoticons, even if ir interlocutor uses m – as a kind of reflection.
Anor result of FORSA survey is that text messages become more unpopular. Tapping more and more users is too cumbersome. Instead, y put more emphasis on voice messages.
In January 2018 a total of 2,001 Internet users between 14 and 60 years of age were surveyed from Germany.
