Salon.com > Emojis http://www.salon.com Mon, 20 May 2013 02:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Love in the time of emojis http://www.salon.com/2013/02/09/love_in_the_time_of_emojis/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/09/love_in_the_time_of_emojis/#comments Sat, 09 Feb 2013 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13193762 I recently looked up from my iPhone, turned dramatically to a friend and declared, "My love life has been hijacked by emojis."

It wasn't a complaint so much as an expression of genuine surprise -- an emoji of Edvard Munch's "Scream" (which, yes, exists). I'm a stickler for correct spelling and punctuation, and a hater of lazy text-message abbreviations, but here I was texting my boyfriend, "Good morning," followed by a series of emoticons of "sweet stuff'" -- an ice cream cone, a bowl of ice cream, cake with candles, a slice of cake. Then I giggled at his response: a graphic of a swelling heart. I haven't communicated like this since my pen met an all-pink Hello Kitty diary in fourth grade.

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