Emojis Can Be One of The Reasons Why You Are Alone
There is hardly anyone who doesn’t use emojis nowadays hence it has become an integral part of any conversations in the form of webchats, SMS, and emails, etc.
It is very continent to use one emoji like this😂instead of tying a whole a lot of sentences and Emojis are very expressive as it is available in a huge variety and the colors to cater to any needs.
With cross-platform messaging becoming the primary mode of communication with friends and family the usage emoji is gaining more and more popularity. Its origin goes back to the end of the nineties. To be specific there are some references on the internet which states that the first emoji was created in 1999 by a Japanese artist.
With all the positives and the convenience, it brings there are numerous amounts of people are talking about its usefulness and there are a considerable amount of blogs covering this topic that are available on the internet as well. I am not going to join the existing list and this blog is not to follow the existing rituals. I am trying to get into the usage of this in real-life conversation and how it is shaping the way people interact with each other.
Would you believe that In 2015, 😂 emoji has become the Oxford Dictionaries’ “Word” of the Year yes you are reading it right 😂 aka Face with Tears of Joy was used more than any other smiley in the world on 2015. Even today you could see this emoji being used widely to convey the joy and happiness in the world of chatting.
With a wide variety of the emojis available to use today, you can use it to convey any kind of emotion or sentence you are trying to convey. With all the convenience and effectiveness, it brings it is very much unavoidable nowadays.
Let’s take a step back and you could have noticed as well, this brings us to the problem of making people uncomfortable on how to start or end conversations without using any smileys. You and I are looking for the help of emoji to support.
✌️ 👍 👌 to appreciate anyone
🤩 😱 to convey the excitement
🎉🥂 to Party
🎂 to wish birthday
🙂 is kind of used for every other occasion.
This tremendous usage of emojis has led to the very less real-life face to face conversions.
There comes the scenario where you are happily e-chatting for hours to some person online and then you meet them in person, and you are short of words to start and build a meaningful conversation. You are looking for some sort of Emoji fillers to help with the conversations.
When this kind of scene becomes more common particularly with the new generation who are using online chatting as the primary way of communication. The human touch in conversations is gradually disappearing.
This could make us feel that more usage of online chat has led to the downfall of human interactions. Let me conclude with this precious piece of words from Ralph Waldo Trine on his book released in 1920 😱
They might not need me-yet they might,
I’ll let my heart be just insight.
A smile so small as mine might be
Precisely their necessity.
Let us share the small smiles in person with a human touch instead of 😊