VKontakte users told how often they use emojis

MOSCOW, July 22together with VKontakte, we conducted a survey on the agency’s page https://vk.com/ria on the social network and found out how often community subscribers use emoticons in correspondence. The survey was timed to coincide with World Emoji Day, which is celebrated on July 17.
The answer options were: often, I use them instead of words, rarely, I don’t use them at all.
As a result, 50.19% of subscribers answered that they use emoticons often. Almost 26% of respondents rarely use emojis. The third most popular answer was the answer “I don’t use it at all”, 19.72% of subscribers voted this way. And only 4.11% of people use emojis instead of words.

1070 people took part in the voting.