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If you're not female, a teenager, or from Japan, you're probably just missing the cultural context in which Emoji are used. I'm none of those, but I think Emoj

If you're not female, a teenager, or from Japan, you're probably just missing the cultural context in which Emoji are used. I'm none of those, but I think Emoji are fun, and use them fairly regularly in casual sms conversations. There is also much more history of their (easy) use on iOS than Android, which did not support them very well, if at all, until recent years.

PeterGriffin 12y ago
Come on now, you don't need to be "female, teenager and from Japan". "Emoji" are simply "emoticons" aka "smilies". People all over the world have been familiar with those from instant messengers going back to the 90s. And before graphical "emoticons" people have been using ASCII smilies going back to the 80s on IRC. If someone doesn't get the appeal, the reason is much simpler - they don't text chat a lot. That's fine. If they would, they'd instantly see the need, because plain text can't by itself properly support the subtlety of what one says in a conversation.