09/12/2021
Emoji have two distinctive features. First of all, you can choose a skin tone for some of them ✋✋✋? This ensures equality of users. Secondly, they can convey emotions. For example, you can insert a ? to show embarrassment. This allows you to interact more fully with the people on the other side of the screen.
Benefits of Emoji
Emoji are a good alternative to icons or images because most people already use them when communicating with friends. In addition, many emoji are supported by the Unicode standard, which means that you can simply copy them without risking to change the text structure. As an example: if you want to insert a cloud icon from the Font Awesome series, you need to change the tag as follows.
Disadvantages of emoji
Emoji do not have fixed definitions, and this can lead to misunderstandings ? between the sender and the receiver. For example, if you want to talk about your illness, which of these icons is better to use?
Moreover, different cultures may interpret emoji in their own way.
On the West means goodbye, and in China - the end of a friendship. If behind this emoji ?
is the word "no", how about this ?
Should we choose ? or ? to express our agreement?
As you can see, the meaning of emoji is ambiguous, and different devices and browsers may display them differently. In addition, they look childish and it is difficult to use them at first. Adding too many of these icons will spoil the overall impression of the text and make it look like spam.
Yes and no
Thus, emoji will work for:
to replace icons;
to illustrate a thought;
for sentences expressing emotion (I'm angry ?);
to highlight universal words
(Why should you listen to music ? every day).
Don't
overuse emoji by putting them everywhere
