Yikes, you are absolutely right, but I think the way that language is fluid we are at most 5 years away from "kids" not being able to recognize the term "smiley

Yikes, you are absolutely right, but I think the way that language is fluid we are at most 5 years away from "kids" not being able to recognize the term "smiley". Emoji is becoming the defacto catch-all term.