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The Woman Who Decides What Emojis We Use [Content Made Simple]

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Chris Martin
May 12, 2021
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The Woman Who Decides What Emojis We Use

image in robin's egg blue background of woman at bottom jennifer daniel looking thoughtful with four emoji above her thinking face emoji hand pointing down emoji unicorn emoji and smartphone emoji

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My understanding is that 80% of communication is nonverbal. There’s a parallel in how we communicate. We text how we talk. It’s informal, it’s loose. You’re pausing to take a breath. Emoji are shared alongside words.

When emoji first came around, we had the misconception that they were ruining lang…

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