Hi all! All social networks and instant messengers make it possible to use stickers and emojis to convey your emotions to your interlocutor. But their role does not end there. In the same VKontakte they can be used to decorate the status of a group or personal profile. I'm sure you immediately have a question, how to do this? Let me reassure you right away, there is nothing complicated about this. Now let’s figure out together how to put an emoticon in VK status on a personal page, group or community from a PC or mobile phone.
The emoticons (or emoticons) that we are all accustomed to appeared a long time ago. In 1963, an American cartoonist was invited to a company where he had to depict the emotions of several people. This year can be considered the year of birth of emoticons.
What emoticons are suitable for VKontakte and what are Emoji?
Why did emoticons appear? What was the prerequisite for their appearance? Well, with the development of the Internet (or rather its segment called the World Wide Web or WWW), our usual communication (orally) began to be increasingly replaced by communication via the network, where information is transmitted in written form. The peak of transferring communication to monitor screens occurred at the time of the growing popularity of instant messengers (ICQ, Skype, Viber, WhatsApp, etc.), chats, as well as social networks (Facebook, VKontakte, Twitter, etc.).
However, written speech has one significant drawback compared to oral speech (more precisely, there are several disadvantages, for example, you need to be able to type quickly, but this can be considered the main one) - the difficulty of conveying emotions. The interlocutor does not see your facial expression, posture, or gestures. No, of course, gifted people (writers, for example) can convey emotions very clearly in words, but not everyone has such talent, and most importantly, there is simply not enough time for this when communicating through instant messaging or chat. No time to think.
We needed something that could be inserted very quickly (for example, using a code or notation) and the output would be an expression of emotion, state, clarify the state of the speaker, etc. To some extent, it was this problem that contributed to the emergence of Internet slang (for example, the same words LOL, KEK, etc.), which help convey an emotional attitude towards what was written or its author. But still it was not the same. A breakthrough was needed and it happened.
Of course, the solution to this problem was emoticons. At first, their use was not considered a serious matter, but, for example, now even in business correspondence you can find a colon followed by a closing parenthesis without a space (denotes a smiling emoticon) - 
