Why write an email reply when just a thumbs up or winking emoji will do? Written by Jada Jones, Editor. Editor. Oct. 2, 2023 at 10:40 a.m. PT. Dimitri Otis/Getty Images.

The wink emoji—a yellow face with one eye closed—is, according to a survey of hybrid workers carried out by Slack and Duolingo last year, an emoji boomers use to mean “joking,” but younger ...

To some, the wink emoji is a harmless way to clarify that a statement is intended as a joke, or at least intended to be friendly. And there’s a lot of precedents here.

June 8 (UPI) --A Jamaican woman who won a $1.4 million lottery jackpot went viral on social media for using a winking emoji mask to hide her identity.The winner, identified only as N. Gray, showed ...