Pictograms—i.e., pictures of actual things, like a drawing of the sun—were ... like say ‘I love you’” “Emoji is like someone invented a secret code language that everyone already ...

which gives users the chance to draw emoji by finger and have the app suggest what it thinks you drew. Naturally, we put it to the test. It detected the wide grin emoji without any difficulty.

But we are in touch frequently — by text messages filled with emoji. About the author ... it shows affection but is lighter than saying, “I love you, I miss you, you’d come home right ...

letting users to draw with any of the 722 currently available Unicode emoji. Drag the emoji around the screen and hundreds of stars, hearts, crying cats or alien heads will fall in your wake. You ...

Effective communication nowadays is pretty darn easy. You can order a pizza without talking to someone. You can bail on dinner without catching the disappointed guilt trip in someone's voice.

Are you sick of browsing through endless emoji to find the right one? Now Google’s smartwatch operating system Android Wear will let you draw a clumsy version of the emoji you want, like a ...

But compare the before and after faces, and you’ll see a more definitive expression than the previous drawings. The emoji look like someone specific, instead of a generic impression.

When mature emoji users use strings of emoji, they’re generally in groups of two to five, after a sequence of words, such as "I LITERALLY CAN'T HANDLE THIS 😂😂😂" or "omg i love you 💛 ...