Pro tip: Keep the smiley faces out of your work emails, or else the person receiving the message may think you’re incompetent. That’s according to a study published in “Social Psychological ...

High on emoticon… Smiley faces have taken over our lives (Picture: File) ‘Hi there! Happy face. Great to see you again. Wink. Oh, you can’t meet me later?

In most offices, they’re fine in moderation. If you receive a single smiley face emoticon in a professional email from a colleague, you’re highly unlikely to think, “Eeeewww.

The smiley face emoticon was first placed in a post to the Carnegie Mellon University computer science general board by Professor Scott E. Fahlman in 1982.

Pro tip: Keep the smiley faces out of your work emails, or else the person receiving the message may think you’re incompetent. That’s according to a study published in “Social Psychological ...