It is, therefore, not surprising at all that teenagers are channelling their inner Stone Age personas by preferring hearts, smiley or gloomy faces and other toon icons over tedious wordplay. Ancient humans used figures and symbols long before evolving a written alphabet anyway, so emojis obviously tap into some primordial human instinct when it comes to articulation of thoughts and emotions. Amid fears that emojis are supplanting good old-fashioned words and expressions, the news this week that the growing band of emoji users now has 168 more symbols to choose from should be taken as an indicator of where we are headed: back to the future.
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