It turns out that emoticons are considered a symbol, so they can beef up your passwords and make them more secure in combination with letters and numbers. Here’s how.
    • @frank@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Okay now’s my time to shine. The words “emoji” and “emoticon” are false cognates, as in they aren’t actually related. Emoticon is a few-decade old word to describe emotion+icon, like :)

      Emoji is Japanese (kanji - 絵文字) for picture-word, basically. It super outdates computers.

      They just happen to sound similar; isn’t that fun?