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Happy face 😄, surprised face 😯, angry face 😡, sad face 🙁, very sad face 😔, and so many more emoji that are widely used in internet communication to express opinions, feelings, emotions, and reactions. For many years studies have been done to examine the role of emoji that affects user engagement and social media conversations across all major social media platforms.

This machine will highlight the main points of this argument and the emergence of emoji in social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The phenomenon of using emoji in social media extends to change the main structure and grammar of written text and the use of language in social media communication. Where some emoji are used to substitute text or punctuations and others combined with the text in both formal and informal social media interactions. Actually, many smartphones now provide a word suggestion function with automatically replace text to emoji in the conversations.

🥱 Yawning Face Represent having insufficient sleep, or to imply boredom with a person or topic.

😴 Sleeping Face Represent sleppness or boredom.

🤤 Drooling Face Represent desire for a person (sexy, attractive) or object (e.g., delicious food). May also represent someone is tired or sleeping.

😪 Sleepy Face Represent sleppness or tiredness.

😵 Dizzy Face Represent sickness, nausea, intoxication, and death.

🤐 Zipper-Mouth Face Represent secret or that someone will keep one. May also be used to tell someone to stop talking .

😊 Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes Represent genuine happiness and warm, positive feelings.

😇 Smiling Face with Halo Represent ngels, prayers, and blessings.

🙂 Slightly Smiling Face Represent happy and friendly sentiments.

🙃 Upside-Down Face Represent irony, sarcasm, joking, or a sense of goofiness or silliness.

😉 Winking Face Represent joke, flirtation, hidden meaning, or general positivity.

😌 Relieved Face Represent pleasant feelings, including contentment, calm, peace, and relief.

😍 Smiling Face with Heart-Eyes Represent enthusiastic feelings of love, infatuation, and adoration.

Meaning Sorce: Emojipedia (https://emojipedia.org/)

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The Rhetoric of Visual Language 👉(Emoji)👈 In Social Media Communication

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