World Emoji Day

World Emoji day is celebrated on July 17 around the world.

 Emojis were first used in Japan in the late 1990s on mobile phones. They are fun to use. As a result, their popularity and use has grown exponentially. Today, you couldn't imagine a world without emojis.

In the last few years, major corporations have gotten into the act, creating an enormous assortment of emojis for us to use for almost any emotion or occasion. Retail outlets have also joined the fun. You can find emojis on all sorts of products, from stationery to T-shirts, to pillows.

At Swastik Jewellers we had added an emoji, a smiling emoji in our campaign ‘Mission Smile’. Our core idea was to spread happiness and satisfaction among our customers and employees.  We installed a Smile-o-Meter for customers to punch in if they are happy and satisfied with our products and services. We had a monthly target to create 100 smiles. Every smiling customer would give a job satisfaction and smiling staff. This created a lighter moment among the customer and the employees. At one go you see smiling faces all around you.

Emojis have their roots in the yellow smiley of the 1960s and 1970s.. Harvey Ball, a commercial artist from Worcester, Massachusetts created the smiley face in 1963. Harvey's smiley also gained world-wide popularity

The Origin of World Emoji Day:

Jeremy Burge created Emojipedia in 2013. He followed that up, by creating World Emoji Day in 2014.

It is very appropriate for this to be a "World" day, as emojis are popular around the world.