What it communicates, above all, is the hopeless unhipness of its sender. I use it anyway, mostly out of habit but also ...

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Smiley faces are good. Poop and fist bumps are bad. ... But interestingly people only include an emoji in their opening message about 10 percent of the time. It certainly can't hurt.