Talking with Symbols - Emojis

As the demographic gets younger, the use of emoji's should escalate and that accompanies the rise of mobile phones that seek emotional information with texting.  Yet video chats may kill the emoji before a new visual language can rise to the level of language rather than simply accompany text on a page.  So long as we write text rather than speak with voice recognition, the symbolic world of emoji will be with us for a long time to come.

I need to personally understand this world because emojis right now are an alien world to me and they are far more dynamic and rich than the emoticons we are all used to which if this sentence was funny look like this :-) and not 😊 the difference being that the latter is encoded as a character.   So first lets take a look at a humourous look to the introduction of new emoji's that have been introduced recently or at least at the time of writing this buzz :

The phenomena of visual representation represents a new way of creating a language, and in a visual age it is entirely logical for some people to try to do so.  This does not represent a threat to the English Language because the nature of language has always been evolutionary, though it does represent a nuisance in the conduct of business English.  How language evolves is anyone's guess but we also know that languages do also go extinct.  At the introductory level I am looking at, that is a debate for another buzz by whoever wants to buzz about that.  For today, my purpose is to delve into this world and see for myself how this effects or alters the world of communication and more importantly collaboration.