Psychology of Emojis
an introvert's perspective
What a blessing it is to not make or take calls like we had to when we, the millennials were kids. The now-vintage telephone with a spiral chord, which was our personal fidget spinner, had a louder than rooster ringtone. Unlike the ocean of songs and pleasant to ears ringtones available now a days, we were subject to mini heart attacks every time the telephone rang.
Now, introverted adult millennials are walking-talking traumatized beings who find solace in the comfort of texting. Although we started from typing on a keypad so complex and hard that the edge of our thumbs still hurt on the thought of typing on those rock solid Nokia’s keypads we owned in our teenage.
How soft and smooth the touchscreens are, how convenient is qwerty, how awkward it was to type skul for school, cul for cool and f9 for fine.
Ahh! the cringe crawled down my spine while typing this here. Our emojis were no less! We invented <3, :), ;) and so many more (including a middle finger emoji) to eventually inspire the creator of emoji to create round yellow emojis for every emotion.
Now, the pool of emojis is so vast that we have limited ourselves to just a few that we use to cover our awkwardness over texts or to cushion the harshness of words typed.
A please, a thank you and sorry are not enough so we put emojis to show how we have put our heart in the text.
Difference between a text with and without an emoji can be explained by the difference between I love you and Love you.
If you are an introvert with overthinker as your middle name you absolutely understood what it implies.
An emoji in a personal text can add the touch of affection and honesty while this can go wrong if used in a formal text.
As a woman, sending a heart emoji is instantly replaced with a flower or some other neutral emoji when texting with the opposite gender.
They can read too much between the emojis and you wouldn’t want that.
See, the emojis have intensities, some are intense like red hearts and some are neutral like flowers.
Despite of these small little round-yellow hiccups, texting is better than making calls thanks to the emojis.
In the end, I’d like to say that you can communicate almost everything through texts and emojis but please! break up over a phone call and not a text.