Are 'emoji' dumbing us down or enriching our communities?
First-order claims:
1) At the end of the 1990's Shigetaka Kurito began working for an idea he thought might lure teenagers to the DoCoMo Network, a network in which he was an employee.
2) Shigetaka Kurito and his team created 176 characters, 12 pixels squares and made them available for use in SMS messages
3) Line, the dominant message app in Japan with over 100 million users, allows in-app purchase of extra emojis - purchases that reportedly rank in well over $3 million each month
Second-order claims:
1) 'Emojis' aid in human communication by allowing symbols which cannot be expressed by words alone
2) The emoticon movement is slowly but surely being integrated into daily human life
Knowledge question:
1) To what extent will humans allow 'emojis' to convey their inner thoughts?
1) At the end of the 1990's Shigetaka Kurito began working for an idea he thought might lure teenagers to the DoCoMo Network, a network in which he was an employee.
2) Shigetaka Kurito and his team created 176 characters, 12 pixels squares and made them available for use in SMS messages
3) Line, the dominant message app in Japan with over 100 million users, allows in-app purchase of extra emojis - purchases that reportedly rank in well over $3 million each month
Second-order claims:
1) 'Emojis' aid in human communication by allowing symbols which cannot be expressed by words alone
2) The emoticon movement is slowly but surely being integrated into daily human life
Knowledge question:
1) To what extent will humans allow 'emojis' to convey their inner thoughts?
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