![]() “I don’t think it’s required since an emoji is a form of expressing your emotions and your CV should state facts. "We are yet to see an emoji on a CV,” says Louise Vine, managing director of Inspire Selection, a recruitment company in Dubai. That said, there are some instances in which emoji use still hasn’t become the norm – for example, in the job-hunting process. The top 10 emojis used across the Mena region are: face with tears of joy (□) red heart (❤️) black heart (□) smiling face with heart-eyes (□) rolling on the floor laughing (□) face blowing a kiss (□) rose (□) sparkling heart (□) heart suit (♥️) broken heart (□). In the Mena region, the latter emoji was used prolifically in Egypt and Algeria, followed by Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, according to statistics from Facebook Mena. Icons related to travel and places (for example, desert island □️) have decreased, while the usage of the medical mask emoji (□) spiked. The coronavirus pandemic has changed our world in many ways, including our use of emojis. ![]() How our use of emojis has changed in 2021 It is often used by Gen-Z to express silliness or playfulness, typically saying "you are foolish or playful" or "you are clowning right now". The clown face emoji was approved as part of Unicode 9.0 in 2016, and later saw a notable jump in usage on TikTok. Every year, Unicode adds more options to its approved list, broadening visual communication and diversifying its selection of icons. But I’ve noticed trends move on quick."Įmojis have only grown more sophisticated, too. Now, Gen-Z have evolved emoji usage and made several combinations of their own with a different meaning. Even now, my conversations are peppered with emojis and seem dry or emotionless without. "Growing up, it went from emoticons on MSN and Blackberries to later emoji usage on smartphones. "I think nowadays emojis have become a huge norm within conversations via text or online," says Mona Arshe, a British millennial teacher and psychologist in the UAE. Those in Generation-Z, who were born between 19, might believe growing up in the peak social media era gives them an advantage, but millennials, who were born between 19, were there from the start: they witnessed this new invention come to life. My conversations are peppered with emojis and seem dry or emotionless withoutĪll of this has made face-to-face or phone conversations a rarer form of communication among young adults. ![]() "When I encounter someone who doesn't use emojis, I immediately sense they are either significantly older than me, or it is work and I have to be extremely professional," says Asma Nur, a Gen-Z public relations specialist in the UAE. Use a thumbs up or a smiley face, however, and you’ll have injected a spot of positivity and enthusiasm into your note. A text without an emoji nowadays might make you seem “dull”, “rude” or too “serious”. Young people did not waste any time incorporating them into their messaging habits. Suddenly, they were on phones, social media platforms and emails everywhere. It was 2009 when several engineers from Apple submitted an official proposal to adopt 625 new emoji characters into the Unicode standards, with the decision of making emojis accessible from 2010. Emojis, on the other hand, are the little pictorial icons we all know and love today. ![]() But when emoticons graduated from simple characters to well-expressed emojis, they spurred a universal language of their own.įor the uninitiated, emoticons are textual portrayals of faces and emotions represented by keyboard characters such as punctuation marks, letters and numbers. In the beginning, they were just a few keyboard characters at the end of your sentences, added to convey emotion or look “cool”. ![]()
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