When we typed in that familiar emoticon “:)” into the chat window, bam! Up popped this little legend: I think a lot of us born in late-80s to early-90s were first introduced to emoji on chat platform MSN Messenger. That’s the moment a lot of us got hooked. Suddenly we are using the “angel” face to feign our innocence, flirting with the “kiss”, “heart”, and “rose”, using the “puppy” face when we’re trying to be cute and get our way and sending one of the “hugging” emoji when we need comforting, in hopes that our friend on the other side of the screen would send back the adjacent one. This was just my introduction though, and it’s not just Gen Y & Z hooked on emoji. Once emoji came about, every smartphone SMS system, online instant messaging service and almost all platforms that facilitated digital communication jumped on the bandwagon and got their own unique set of emoji pictures. So sooner or later people of all ages were getting in on the craze. These days half the Facebook comments I get from my Mum are just emoji. Though she’s started sending “stickers” more recently, which is a whole other ball game I won’t get into right now. Regardless of where you first started using emoji, over time you probably became used to sprinkling these little symbols throughout your digital messages. Though arguably the most recognisable family in the emoji world appears on iPhones.īefore you ask why you should know emoji etiquette, let me remind you of the great power these pictures yield. Emoji have become so big and so popular, that one of them (the “Face with tears of joy”) won the Oxford Dictionaries Word of The Year 2015, as the “word” that “ best reflected the ethos, mood and preoccupations of 2015”. Emoji are even thought to be playing a part in the demise of previously popular Internet slang, like the once great “Lol”. It sounds crazy but emoji have even started to be used as evidence in criminal charges. So when you can’t beat them, you join them. And here are some examples of how to use emoji like a pro.
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