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Hello, guys! Today we're entering the world of emojis—the small characters people use feelings in texts and emails. Do you have a favorite emoji? Do you know where they are from? Let's see together!
When we talk with someone face to face, we use gestures (姿势) like smiling, laughing or nodding to show the other person how we feel. But these feelings sometimes get lost in written communication because of the lack of gestures. That's where emojis come in—they add feelings and emotion to messages like QQ and WeChat. There are different kinds of emojis, facial expressions, places and types of weather, animals and so on.
The first emoji was in 1999 in Japan and then became popular among Japanese mobile phone users. But they were used in the western world until 2011 and then was used by Android and other operating systems. Now there are over three thousand emojis that can be from. They help people put back some of the human feelings that are in written texts and emails.
However, not everyone is an emoji fan. Some people believe that choosing words is the best way of expressing yourself, and using emojis too often will lower our ability to put feelings into words. But they possibly the nature of communication. Emoji is important. In fact, it offers more ways to communicate in the digital (数字) age. What's your opinion?