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• Jtsummers 11y ago
  I'm not sure it's really changing, emoji gives us a tool for something many of us did in grade school when writing notes. We drew faces and other things on the messages. That experience has largely not carried over to computer/phone messaging apps. Besides, we've had smileys for ages as well. ^_^, :), :-P, D:, :-E (bucktoothed vampire), etc. have all been around for a while and predate emoji, which just give us a single character representation (and a variety, several types of smiles and frowns and sweating and crying that can be used for different things).