What is an emoji?
Here's a short definition I found on Google:
a small digital image or icon used to express an idea or emotion in electronic communication.
Why should I care?
Emojis are fun! We all love them because they give meaning to our conversation. Without them, one could not express an emotion through plain text. Before emojis were even born smileys and internet slang like LOL, LMAO, ROFL etc were popular (they are still common). But with improvements in internet technology and how our devices can display text and images emojis slowly started to replace the old smileys and internet slang. Certainly, one wouldn't use emojis when writing a book or if you are a professional blogger. We only use emojis in text messaging with friends, family, co-workers etc. When communicating through text the reader may not interpret correctly what the other party wanted to convey if there are no emotions attached to the text. At least once we have all been in a situation when in a conversation with someone there are misunderstandings and sometimes even arguments because the other party (or us) didn't understand the message and got angry. This happens very often if you are in a relationship with someone, between man and woman.
The solution is emojis 😍😍😍. Use emojis to express emotion and give meaning to your conversations. In my opinion, this helps reduce the misunderstandings.
Emojis are everywhere! They are on Apple devices, Android devices, browsers can display them, even the simplest apps on your computer like Notepad can display them. Just try it!
If you are using a Windows 10 computer, use this simple hack to enable emojis on your computer.
Right click on the keyboard at the right bottom of the screen and click on the 'Show touch keyboard button'.
Once you enable touch keyboard, you can use emojis.
Can I just copy and paste emojis?
Messengers and smartphones all have emojis on the keyboard, but what can you do when you are on the web?
There are two good websites that I often use myself for copy and pasting emojis.
You can copy and paste emojis from these two sites to any other site.
How emojis are displayed on different platforms?
All platforms display emojis differently though. To see the complete list of emojis and how they display on different platforms visit the Unicode site.
Big Emojis?
If you are a hardcore emoji fan, there are even big emojis available. You can get a Big Emoji Keyboard on your phone as an application and use the big emojis as stickers in messaging for fun.
Use emojis as stickers in Photoshop
If you work with images a lot and create all kinds of graphics you can use big emojis as stickers on your images. I am sure you have seen them on social media sites. Doing a quick Google search will give you a lot of results with big emojis to place on your images, but they're not always free.
Learn more
If you'd like to learn more about emojis, read the FAQ section of Emojipedia.