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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…
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What is even real anymore, amiright? In this confusing era—when Internet crazy meets insanely polarized politics—it’s become incredibly hard to discern what’s fact and what’s fiction. As we sort through the daily deluge of nonsense the Internet offers us, it’s easy to be left wondering about questions like, “Is the information I’m reading accurate, legitimate or biased?”; “Whom can I trust, and whom should I definitely not trust?”; “Am I talking to a Russian bot right now?”; “What is happening?”
There’s no doubt that fake news…
Are you a cord cutter or cutting curious? Hate paying for content you don’t like, like Teen Mom OG? We feel your pain.
There is a 50 percent chance that if you’re reading this article, you are reading it from a web-based browser from your desktop. What browser are you using right now? Chrome? Internet Explorer? How fast is the experience, and to what extent are you concerned with privacy and cookie tracking?
At The Bold Italic, we work pretty selectively with sponsors and advertisers. We’ve had the pleasure of working with the Mozilla Firefox team for the past several months, and during that time, all of us have switched to Firefox — Mozilla’s iconic secure browser, which is about to go through…
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