Hyemoji.com Website Review

The era of the smartphone has given rise to a non-binary language used to communicate without words via text or apps such as Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat. This language is called Emoji, and most people can understand the visual cues as*ociated with these tiny images. While emojis are up to interpretation and are mostly meant to be fun to use. Emoticons and Emojis are thriving in today’s age and have become widely universal. They were invented to avoid confusion through text based conversations. Although Emojis and emoticons serve a similar purpose in expressing emotions, they are different. Emoticons show emotions in text by using typographic punctuation marks, in a way that resembles a facial expression view from the side. Emojis are pictographs, conveying emotions, feelings and activities through colorful graphics in electronic text. Emojis are more used today because they are more expressive and advanced. Most platforms today automatically convey the inputted emoticon as an Emoji. Emojis have become a necessary part of modern electronic communication. Scott Fahlman of France presented the first digital appearance of the emoticon in 1982 to distinguish between humorous and serious posts between faculty members. Having no way to distinguish sarcasm through electronic text caused frustration and miscommunication between members. This was because an electronic text lacks language or voice cues that are used to convey emotion. Fahlman became aware of this issue and created a solution by creating the Emoticon. Emoticons were a huge improvement in text based communication and it only took a matter of months before, this text based solution, spread to other schools. 15 years later, Nicolas Loufrani, the French president of Smiley Company trademarked the smiley face and promoted the emoticon by using it to indicate good news in the newspaper. Nicolas Loufrani and his father Franklin Loufrani, created an online emoticon dictionary in 1997, which was registered with the United States