Why is everyone using "emoticons"?

In recent years, emoticons, with their innovative ideas and humorous styles, have rapidly taken over major online social platforms, becoming a new favorite for people to chat on social software. Without realizing it, Chinese emoticons have become a common and popular system of online expression, and "emoticon culture" has gradually entered the mainstream cultural field of vision, becoming a kind of online cultural phenomenon that can't be ignored.

Emoji is essentially a kind of pop culture

Based on the continuous development of social networking and the Internet, the way people communicate with each other has changed accordingly, from the earliest text-based communication to the use of simple symbols, emoji, and emoticons, gradually evolving into an increasingly diversified emoticon culture that uses homemade pictures of popular elements to communicate. These pictures are mostly funny and exaggerated in composition. By collecting and sharing such pictures, people can have fun, and at the same time, showing their own collection of pictures can be recognized by people and achieve psychological satisfaction.

Emoticons have rich connotations, express themselves, and can also resolve embarrassment

A simple emoticon often has a richer connotation than a sentence. Sometimes different people will prefer to collect different styles of emoticons, or funny, or cute, or very dirty. Nowadays, more and more rich emoticons give people abundant choices to express themselves, and the choice of different emoticons represents a certain emotion or a certain character trait of people.

Some sentences are hard to write, and many people will add an emoji after a sentence that may cause displeasure or ambiguity, which instantly adds interest. In addition, in the group together with a love packet fighting map on a few network chat in the rich, exaggerated emoticons in sharp contrast to our daily chat in the serious expression, has always been the family education and traditional culture are respected calm and steady, "happy in color" in China is a pejorative term, and even in the whole of the Greater China cultural area, including Japan, Korea and other Asian countries. Even in the entire Greater China culture area, including Japan, Korea and other Asian countries, compared to Westerners are not good at using facial expressions and body language to express the inner world. Oriental people are shy and introverted, and advocate the so-called "sad but not obscene", "happy but not hurt", "a heartfelt smile", "smile without showing teeth", etc. are all compliments to others. "etc. are words of exaggeration.