Happy Sunday people, our weekly break ends and with it the beginning of a week of hard work.
Today, a topic that many know, but few do not deepen in its origin. Such is the case of how graphic expressions of affection or feeling are born through social networks. The need to express a feeling of joy, love, anger, sadness or anger, was always latent in the users of social networks, mobile phones. In those early days, when there was only plain text and graphics on computers were almost science fiction, they invented the smileys, symbols made from the keyboard that denoted smiling faces, sad, serious, or laughed at full lung.
These symbols or smileys, nowadays are still valid and many people use them, but also these smileys as everything in social networks, have competition and are the emojis, an extension of what were the smileys but managed to exceed the expectations of the smileys adding to their symbols and images graphic environments, including animations.
An emoji is an iconic image, which may or may not include animations, and which seeks to express a feeling in a summarized way.
The origin of the word should be sought in Japan at the end of the 90s of the last century, although the rest of the world arrived at the beginning of this century, and have really become popular not so many years ago.
The same Japanese script, ideographic, facilitated the adoption of these symbols, as well as in much of the East and, later, in the West.
The popularity of emojis, is due to countless users of the network that seek ways to express feelings while saving a quantity of written word.
The written word that expresses our feelings charms our friends, boyfriends or couples, but the use of emojis with their characteristic faces makes anyone fall in love, hence they are used much more in conversations from our smart mobile device.
These emojis also have the particularity of showing through them the proper seriousness that merits any conversation.
The great deference between them is that the smojis outnumber the smileys in quantity and variety.
Each program allows us to add sets of emojis according to the needs or our preferences.
In some cases, these emojis are presented free or paid, according to the content strategy of the platform. In general, it is easy for a particular service or product to have a series of free emojis and others to pay to complement the first ones.
