That’s it! It’s time to check why people (teens and millennials and older adults) like to use bitmojis and emojis so much?
Why? What is so special in that form of communication? ok! I get it that we use less of simple text, I get it that for last few years we prefer to share more pictures. But now even pictures are not enough and videos are trending. I wonder why? And still…it doesn’t matter what we share (pictures or videos) emojis are an important part of it.
What’s so special about emojis/bitmojis that we don’t even try to express something by using words anymore. Just look at your kids/grandkids smartphone and check the WhatApp, Instagram or Snapchat. Emojis/bitmojis everywhere. Instead of saying that we are sad, we are going to select a “sad emoji”. There are so many types of emojis options to choose from that we are able to express whatever (almost everything) we want to say in emojis.
Seems like people created a new language, the emoji-language. Why do we (ok, not everyone but many) like it so much? Is it better or not so much? O maybe it neither good or bad, it’s just another form of communication?
Fully 92 percent of all people online use emoji now, and one-third of them do so daily. On Instagram, nearly half of the posts contain emoji, a trend that began in 2011 when iOS added an emoji keyboard. Rates soared higher when Android followed suit two years later. Emoji are so popular they’re killing off netspeak. The more we use 🙂 , the less we use LOL and OMG. (source: Wired)
Maybe emoji is not the new language but it is some form of communication. And at some point, I even thought that we are getting back to hieroglyphics! (you know, those ancient hieroglyphics) but according to Grammarly’s article, we are not (click here to check the article). So what is emoji? I don’t know, but it looks like emojis are taking the world by storm and they are here to stay for good.
Emoji assist in a peculiarly modern task: conveying emotional nuance in short, online utterances. “They’re trying to solve one of the big problems of writing online, which is that you have the words but you don’t have the tone of voice,” accordnig to Gretchen McCulloch, a linguist and author. (source: Wired)
Did you know that for the first time ever, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year (in 2015) was a pictograph: 
. I think that is just another symbol of what is happening to the way people communicate.
Do you use emojis/bitmojis? What do you think about that form of communication?
