[Image: Apple] The top three most popular emoji are the joy smiley face emoji (conveys teary-eyed laughter), used a whopping 9.9% of the time; the red heart emoji, used 6.6% of the time ...

A teary-eyed emoji has been named word of the year by Oxford Dictionaries. Written communication has been shunned in favour of an icon of a yellow smiling face with two tears welling up in its ...