Whether you celebrate today with a happy face, a pair of raised hands, or mere heart-eyes, July 17 marks World Emoji Day.
Well, thinking of messages without emojis is extremely difficult for each one of us today. Emojis make conversations interesting and help us express ourselves the best way. They shapes our feelings and moods in a virtual space. You may be crying, dancing, eating, cooking, or rolling on the floor laughing, there is emoji for every occasion.
As we get busier with no time to type long messages, emojis, animated stickers are becoming the future form of messaging. Who knows, there could be a day soon when we chat only via emojis and no texts.
World Emoji Day is a global event observed to enhance the power of emojis for enhancing our everyday conversations. These digital icons have added more meaning to our conversations. Unlike before, emojis are not only limited to faces; now they also include animals, flowers, planets, alphabets, clothes, activities and the list goes on.
Also, we now have emojis that are gender neutral or the ones that spread across the skin tone spectrum; such an effort makes virtual communication inclusive and accessible by all. There’s a pool emoticons to choose from and each one of them has their own unique meaning.
Do you know that a Japanese engineer created emojis in 1998.
Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year for 2015 was the ‘tears of joy emoji’. It was the first time in history the dictionary used a pictograph as its infamous ‘Word of the Year’. It was chosen because it was the most used emoji globally in 2015.
Emojipedia’s Jeremy Burge launched World Emoji Day on July 17, 2004.
July 17 is not a random date. It was chosen because it is the day that featured on the emoji calendar on the apple keyboard. If you are an iPhone user, you can notice this on your smartphone.
To celebrate World Emoji Day, Apple is previewing a selection of new emoji that will be available this fall with a free software update for iPhone.
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