When Emojis Take Over

That little face that looks at me from the bottom left of my keyboard. It has an ear to ear perfect smile, straight teeth and black doe eyes. I imagine that it’s a he, like he is saying in a mousy voice, “Mrs. Misty touch my face and see what you can use instead of words!”

I’m like, “I don’t know Mr. Emoji. I’m an author and I should use words.”

Mr. Emoji explains, “You can be creative.” He is trying to convince me. He continues, “Emoji’s are fun.” I glance at him, he is smiling. He continues, “Cool people use them.”

Cool people? I hesitate for a second and say, “Fine, I’ll take a look and see if I can add a few.” I wonder how much I had to drink the night before.

There are rows upon rows of emojis, faces, families, animals, food, cars, buildings, flags and symbols. I couldn’t even tell you what half of them mean. I think for a few minutes if I could really use any of these in my messages. Will people understand or will they just get frustrated and skip over my message?

I decide that I can use some in place of words. I got to work.

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March 9th, 2017 at 12:15am