How do emoji impact our 💆♂️ mental health?
Mental health is a state of mental well-being that allows one to deal with routine and stressful events in one's life. Therefore, it is natural that one of the elements of the concept is emotional well-being, which is directly linked to the expression of emotions. And while science is searching for optimal ways to achieve this state, let's talk about how the psycho-emotional side is affected by virtual expression of emotion in the form of emojis.
🤔 Why is there 17 July on the 📅 “Calendar” emoji?
There are several emoji where the design details are not random or carry a hidden meaning. These include 📖 "Open Book", for example, where the Apple version displays real text, and the emoji for 🧏 Deaf people showing a word from European Sign Language.
Do we need emojis?
It's hard to find now a text message that doesn't contain an emoji. In the US alone, more than half of all Internet users use emoticons in text messages, and teenagers and people under 30 send up to 100 emoticons a day. So what is the phenomenon behind the ever-increasing popularity of emoji and why do we need them? Let's find out below, starting with the story.
Are emojis part of the Unicode?
According to the research, 92% of Internet users employ emojis. This is why very often these bright and colorful images are called the international language of communication. But if emojis are a language, then, as any of the languages, it should follow a particular set of rules.
🙅♀️ Defected emojis: which emojis are rejected by Unicode?
Every year, from the beginning of April to the end of July, hundreds of applications for new emoji are submitted to the Unicode subcommittee. Interestingly, anyone can submit his or her idea of an emoji. But, it is well-known that the consortium approves and then encodes only a limited number of sketches. What should be taken into account when creating an emoji, so that the smiley appears on smartphones?
A modern trend: Emoji in 💼 business correspondence
Expressing thoughts and emotions with the help of emojis has already become a common practice in business e-communications. As an example, the 2022 survey conducted in the U.S. by Adobe shows that 71% of users use emoticons in their work correspondence, and 68% prefer it when others do as well.
🤔 Why Apple modified its Pistol 🔫 emoji?
Apple was the first to redesign the emoji, launching a modified version in the beta version of iOS 10 for iPhone and iPad. Moreover, the platform didn't officially announce the 🔫 Pistol emoji update and the reasons behind it but merely stated in the tenth iOS release that there were hundreds of new emojis.
Ninja Cats
In April 2016, for the first time, Microsoft introduced a new version of Windows 10 emoji sets featuring 🐱👤 Ninja Cats. It is noteworthy that these emojis are available only on Windows 10. Users with this operating system can use six ninja-cat emojis, either alone or with other emojis and emoticons.