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Emoji's...#TBT

Until this assignment, I had truly not thought about emoticons as anything other way than the little yellow faces smiling and laughing on my keyboard. When you really think about it, emoticons to are actually apart of the way that we communicate in everyday life. Whether it be to share our emotions, express our likes and dislikes, or simply use it as a quick way to response, they work.
If you are not familiar with using emoticons, they are a digital image/sticker that is used to show a feeling or thought. 
The world in which we live todays has used and continues to use emoticons in their benefit. Emojis are able to convey likes and dislikes, emotions, interests, etc. In young adults, emojis are often time inserted into conversation when it is coming to an end or to show interest in the other individual.
How can they do all this? There are around 2,666 emojis that are sent around and used today. They are used in conversation, in captions of social media posts, and they are used to bring humor into a conversation.
In my opinion, I wish that there were either a smaller selection or that they were never created at all. I like to think that emojis are a way to escape conversation. If you do not know how to answer something or even if you do not want to answer something, an emoticon is thrown into a text stream. Though, it may all seem like fun and games, emojis can actually be considered a bad thing. Since being introduced, it has allowed people to become more reliable on small pictures expressing their thoughts, rather than actual words. It may sound crazy, but there are people out there who definitely send an emoji with every text they send and with every post that the publish.
With the rising usage of emojis, I can only help but wonder if they will take over real, written language.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20151012-will-emoji-become-a-new-language

https://emojipedia.org/stats/


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