Emoji
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Are emojis the hieroglyphs of the 21st century? No, probably not. However, they do serve an important role: saying what sometimes can’t be said in words, and a whole lot faster.
Emojis first popped up in the 1980s in order to make online connections feel a little less digital and a little more personal. It makes sense that we humans need them when you consider that you are talking into a box to someone who isn’t anywhere near you. Emojis can help bridge that divide and loosen up communications.
Given where we are today on the web, adding a little…
Supposedly, there are 6,500 languages in the world, a figure that doesn’t include emoji, the fastest-growing, most universal language spoken by nearly all Millennials. How many times have you communicated with your friends only through emojis?
If you don’t know how to write in emoji, you should consider learning. After all, books are being translated into emoji (for example, the Bible). Oxford Dictionaries also named the emoji “Face with Tears of Joy” the 2015 word of the year. …
I am an emoji addict. Who needs words when you can simply text a smiley faced poop when you’re having a craptacular day? Or eggplant + peach when you want to get frisky? Apple will soon release a set of new emojis with varying skin tones as an answer to complaints that all races weren’t represented in the original set.
But hold up — are the Asian faces YELLOW? Why do the new Asian emojis look like extras in an episode of The Simpsons? I’m not sure why we are supposedly yellow in skin tone because my Asian friends and…
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