Do atheists care less about swearing?

[TheRocketSurgeon]

Emojis are really nothing more than modern hieroglyphics, when you think about it:

Not actually true... hieroglyphs actually represent sounds, not individual words or ideas. Even the modern AlphaBet comes from Aleph Beth, which meant "ox" and "house (or tent)", respectively, the names for the symbols of each letter. While I agree that, in general, the new shorthand employed by "kids these days!!!" is galling, that has always been true of the language of the younger generation when viewed by the older one (or by young ones who adopt the standards of the older group). The street-cant of the Droogies in A Clockwork Orange  is the author's take on the evolution of language between generations, based on the changes he noticed and heard complained about in England, as he explains in the afterword of the edition I read.

And I think that emojis are a good way of injecting emotions into our online exchanges online, especially ones where a comment can be misconstrued as cruel or harsh, like sarcasm. In real life, we heavily employ visual and verbal-tone signaling to add "flavor" to our encoded messages (language), and without something akin to the smileyface, we are left to guess at the two other forms of communication intended by the author.