Shocked face… we think.
At first we thought it might be limited to kids, but there’s no doubt that the use of emoji (the plural of emoji, apparently) has drastically altered the way everyone uses language these days.
After all, why express an emotion like sadness using a collection of words when a simple face with one single tear will do?
Turns out, however, that we haven’t been using them correctly this whole time and most of us, including you, are probably guilty.
According to Wired, documents released by the Unicode Consortium, who design smartphone emojis, indicate that some of the most widely used emoji don’t actually mean what most people think they do.
This document from Unicode explains it all in far greater detail, but it turns out that many popular emoji, even the likes of happy face, angry face and sleepy face are not what we think they are.
This, for example, is not crying face…
This is not angry face…
And this is not shocked face…
We’d use an emoji to sum up our reaction, but we’d be afraid we’d be using it in the wrong after all.
Hat-tip to i100
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