My Experiment in Texting Using Only Emojis只用表情符聊天是怎样一种体验.doc

My Experiment in Texting Using Only Emojis只用表情符聊天是怎样一种体验 　　如今我们在网上聊天，用惯了表情符，有时不用反倒会有一种不会聊天了的感觉。甚至有一些青少年喜欢斗图，一段群聊中常常只见图片不见文字。表情符在如今的交流沟通中使用如此普遍，那是否存在这样一种趋势：在未来的某一天，有可能会出现表情符取代文字的情况？尽管这个想法看上去很疯狂，但还真有人为此做了一个实验。而实验的结果在一定程度上还取决于表情符的特性――即使是同一个表情也可能会有不同的含义，尤其是在不同的文化背景之中，差异就更加明显了。比如，国外网站上甚至还发布了一篇表情符指南，来解释中国人发的某些表情符背后的深意，着实令人捧腹。又比如，各个国家都有更加青睐的那么几种表情符，这背后有着有趣的文化解读。总而言之，表情符从20世纪90年代被发明以来，到今天风靡全球，本身就是一个值得研究的有趣现象。因为你不得不承认：过去没有它的时候明明也挺好，可如今的你似乎聊天已经离不开它了 1. Twitter DM： DM是direct message的缩写，相当于新浪微博的私信功能 2. recipient [r??s?pi?nt] n. 接受者；领受人 3. Gchat： 指Google Chat，又名为Google Talk、Gtalk，是一种即时聊天软件，可以通过文字或语音发送信息 4. converse [k?n?v??s] vi. 交谈，谈话 Emojis are everywhere. The little illustrated characters that are on smartphone keyboards are taking over the world. There are shoes with emoji on them， pants with emoji on them， emoji stickers， and the list goes on and on with no sign of ending. As emojis spread into our culture， Iapos；ve actually heard the following question： Are emojis moving to replace communicating with the written word？ To find out， I communicated via iMessage using only emojis for five days. That meant every time someone sent me a text or I wanted to send a text， I could only use the popular tiny picture characters to respond to or start a conversation. I wasnapos；t allowed to cheat by moving the conversation to Facebook message or Twitter DM1）， but I could send a phone emoji to indicate to the recipient2） of my texts that they could call me instead； I could not make the phone call myself. If I was trying to text someone and I saw that they were available to talk on Gchat3） instead， I could not cease the text conversation and pick it back up on Gchat. I wanted to see if it was easier or harder than I expected it to be， yes， but I also wanted to see if I could influence those I was conversing4） with to overthrow their use of text and start using emojis while talking to me. Spoiler Alert： It Was Hard 以下?⊥福航峁?证明很难 Communicating with emojis was way