People Will One Day Communicate Solely in Emotive Animal Pictures
LatestIf there’s one thing that still sucks about living in a technologically-advanced society in the year 2013, it’s the fact that we’re all expected to communicate with one another using long strings of words that (ugh) sometimes abide by the rules of grammar. How has technology not eliminated this inconvenience yet? I have always hoped that, by the time I have a child of my own, computers will have made it so that I don’t have to utter a single linguistic unit to her.
According to the Wall Street Journal, there’s still time for that to occur, and the tides are turning once and for all. In an article whose sub-headline really reads, “Digital ‘Stickers’ Sent Via Smartphone Express Emotions, for a Price; Flatulent Bunnies,” the answer to this conundrum is made clear: emoji, or “stickers,” as the cool kids are calling this new, oddly specific iteration of them. Here are some examples of how amazing and time-saving stickers can be:
When When Tanya Sichynsky wants to tell friends she’s tired, the 19-year-old University of Georgia student… sends an image from her smartphone of a sleepy cartoon bunny holding a coffee mug with a smiley face.
When Kylin Brown messes up dinner, the 23-year-old Indianapolis work-at-home mother uses her smartphone to send her mother a fingernail-size cartoon of a girl running away from an oven in flames.
When Callie Beusman, a 22-year-old blogger and Woman About Town, wants to express her disgust and sadness about the fact that legislation that would outlaw nearly all abortions after 22 weeks is on the fast track to the House floor, she sends an image of a mustachio-ed cartoon villain trampling on a feminist while Gloria Steinem looks on in tears.
(Okay, not all of these are from the article, but the point is that there are a lot of stickers out there).