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I just read an article about how Americans are often seen as too smiley by people from around the world, so maybe it’s time I give up the happy emoji in my posts.
@jason Don’t you quit on me! 😃 We need those happy emojis! 😁
If anything, my personal experience is that American’s are too sour, the happiest, most free and certainly smiling-est folks have always been from somewhere else. 😆
@viciousviscosity take a look. It's interesting to think about:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/05/why-americans-smile-so-much/524967/
@jason Ohh, this study was done in 2015, before the dark times… 😉
It is enlightening about smiles and eye contact in other countries. Thanks for the share.
Smiling being taken as flirting, that seems to be too universal. 😐