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> Historically, most online communications have emphasized text, and emojis add much-needed emotional content to text-driven communications—and often help people express themselves more precisely.

Au contraire ... it's more like "Here are a bunch of emojis so you can interpret my message any way you want but if later it should turn out that I disagree with your interpretation, it's your fault!"




Well, they fill in for body language, and not everyone's great at reading that in real life either.




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