Exit
finds himself returning to the ghost
sticking its tongue out.
The ambiguity of emoji can also
make them frustratingly passiveaggressive, allowing people to send
a response that’s not a real answer.
A friend complained that her boyfriend has adopted a maddening
habit of sometimes answering her
specific questions with “ .” It’s an
evasion, albeit a friendly one.
“You can create a mist of meaning,” noted Tyler Schnoebelen, cofounder of Idibon, a startup analyzing language data, and author
of a study on the use of emoticons
in social media. “People have a
sense of where you’re at, but it’s
a little bit obscure because these
expressive things don’t mean anything particular.”
Companies pushing stickers in
their apps boast that their huge
(and growing) selection of images
ensure an illustration for every occasion, or a sticker pack for every
personality.
“If you give people a library of
a thousand images th ]]