Communication between individuals and groups of people is a vital tool for understanding each other and opening up interpersonal problem solving pathways.
In today’s technology – driven world , instant or improved communication has resulted in miscommunication and misunderstanding.
When we use technology to communicate, we remove the the connection of emotions and body language.
We find ourselves not listening to understand but instead listen to reply and state our point of view without paying attention to understanding others.
Emojis, the digital language developed by the Japanese in the 1990s and became a form of communication from 2010 onwards facilitates this quick communication.
Like all languages, this Online Language keeps evolving and fast.
Now we have an EMOJIPEDIA where you can look up meanings of the different Emojis.
https: //emojipedia.org.
From this Emojipedia, the current most popular Emojis include:
The theme for my Blog is : Learning is for life so there is a lot of learning, unlearning and relearning to be done every day if we are to remain literate in this technology – driven 21st century. In this spirit, revisit an earlier post reflecting on communication.
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