Communicating with emoji was way more difficult than I expected it to be. There were people who were annoyed with me. There were people who gave up after a few back-and-forths. There were missed messages, mixed messages, and messed up plans. There were people who immediately just called my phone to get the conversation moving faster. And there was my mother who doesn’t have an iPhone and texts me often.
The first person to text me was my colleague Alyson Shontell. She knew the experiment was happening so made a large effort to stump me with hard questions that, to be fair, no one would ever ask me via text, like “where were you born again?” She was in the room with me when she sent it, so I was able to roll my eyes at her.
Earlier in 2014, Atlantic writer Kelsey Rexroat embarked on a week of only eating foods immortalized by emoji. Then there was the case of Alex Goldmark and his girlfriend Liza, who decided that for 30 days they would only use emoji when communicating via their phones. Goldmark and his girlfriend explained there was an instance where plans had to be changed last minute, but Goldmark misunderstood what Liza was trying to convey to him via emoji.
This happened to me when I was trying to explain to my friend Tom that I had booked both of our tickets for a destination wedding in several months. In turn, Tom thought I got a raise .
There were very few glimmers of hope throughout this experiment, and I cherished all of them. It wasn’t always terrible, for sometimes people seemed to understand what I was trying to tell them. Take my college friend Rachel, for example, who was taking a bus from Boston to visit me in New York. We communicated via text briefly—and flawlessly .
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