(September 19, 2015 at 1:24 pm)Losty Wrote: While I hate text speak, I adore emojis. They can be very useful in emphasizing tone in a conversation where it obviously cannot be heard.
Yes, with the advent of the internet and humanity becoming reliant on emails and texts for the majority of our communications,
we have to somehow compensate for the 40% or more of our non-verbal communication, like facial expressions and hand-gestures, being lost.
We SHOULD be relying more upon vocabulary and the expression of the written word,
as in the old days of letter-writing,
but with technology rapidly advancing, as literacy simultaneously recedes,
emojis are relied-upon more than they really should be.