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Communication is not cancer.

• sBqQu3U0wH 3y ago
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  • zapzupnz 3y ago
    > it's an unnecessary noise and adds nothing of value. Emoji invented for the purpose of augmenting communication for Japanese mobile phone users in the 90s, starting with NTT DoCoMo's i-Mode (a kind of competitor to WAP). Pictures, especially coloured ones added later, add a wealth of information to a language like Japanese where phrases can only be shortened by so much before becoming nonsense due to the writing system (not to mention a smaller character limit per message). Its purpose is communication. It was made for communication. It is communication. If you refuse to see the communicative value in it, that's your own issue, nobody else's.
  • npteljes 3y ago
    That's flat-out wrong, emojis are communication. Necessity and value can be argued, for example they are pretty much blocked here in HN, yet we still communicate just fine. There is clear need for them though, as people used emoticons extensively in textual communication on the 90s internet too, and there's usage even before that, centuries back[0]. Text is a very limited representation of human communication, missing the intonation, gestures, facial expressions, volume of speech, and other things too maybe. Emoji can supplement that somewhat, so that's a bit of value that they add. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon#History