Why You Need Emoji

Since I have been dealing with emojis in the last two weeks, my attention is more directed to that subject. And like the coincidence wants, an article was written on Nautilus.

Emojis are the body language of the digital age.

The use of emojis has become a global phenomenon.
By 2015, over 6 billion emojis1 were being sent every day by over 90 percent of the world’s online population.2 Emoji, today, dwarfs even the reach of English.

For some, emojis are prompting warnings about the death of real language. Professional art critic and contrarian Jonathan Jones, writing in The Guardian newspaper in 2015, contended that “After millennia of painful improvement, from illiteracy to Shakespeare and beyond, humanity is rushing to throw it all away.” Emoji is, he proclaimed, a “huge step back for humanity.” His derision is clear: “Use emoji if you want to, I’ll stick to the language of Shakespeare.”

But is language really the prime mover and shaker in our everyday world of communication?

Take the quotidian, face-to-face interaction, when we gossip, pass the time of day, or otherwise engage in idle banter—on one estimate as much as 70 percent of our daily interactions are spent in this way.

Complete Article at:
http://nautil.us/issue/50/emergence/why-you-need-emoji

Very interesting article and definitely worth reading it