Review of social media records has radically changed over the past decade. Originally limited to e-mails and maybe some Facebook posts the explosion of social media and related trends have attorneys engaged in e-discovery grappling with how to handle smiley faces, winky faces and other emoticons and emoji designed to express emotions. With the number of these symbols skyrocketing from the hundreds to over a thousand, that task is becoming more difficult.

“It’s getting more complicated,” Bill Tolson, director of Product Marketing at Actiance, told a webinar held this week in association with the inaugural national E-Discovery Day. “How do you capture that stuff? How do you interpret it?”

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