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Illustrating the power of emoji
Most of our communication online is
typed – emails, text messages, Facebook and Twitter. But typing has no facial expressions, no tone of voice. No nuance.
So, maybe it was inevitable that somebody would invent emoji: tiny, typable pictures of faces, things, animals, flags and symbols.
These days, we type 10 billion emoji a day into our online communications. CBS News
Jennifer Daniel is the creative director of emoji at Google, in charge of all the emoji on every Google device, including Android phones. She and her team have drawn all 3,000 of Google s emoji. I do dabble, Daniel said.