At a moment in which each lack minimum generates controversy, Facebook is still committed to the diversity of genders and races and this is exemplified through its 1,500 new emojis Facebook Messenger, with changes such as skin tones or see women “in large occupations”. The objective is clear: make the emojis are more representative of the world in which we live.
In these current times, with social networks that have hundreds of millions of users, any slippage or message out of context becomes a generator of divisions, of opposing views. The world is not changing, but it has already done so. And to reflect the socio-cultural changes of the moment, Facebook Messenger presents 1,500 new emojis to your messaging application that wants to “make the emojis are more representative of the world in which we live”.
And it is that if there has been a revolution in the way of communicating online, that have been the emojis, the evolution of the emoticons in the form of symbols or icons created for when words are unnecessary and that represents better and faster a mood or an opinion that using thousand words. Born at the end of the 90’s in Japan, all started by an emoji well popular as it is the symbol of the heart, and from there were born the first 176 emojis based on elements such as the manga or the kanji for the hand of Shigetaka Kurita, worker of the mobile operator NTT.
New Emojis = more diversity
As we read in his post from Facebook, the new Messenger is updated with new designs, “agnostic in terms of genres” emoticons and choice of skin color. These new emojis that FB wants to diversify the genres “to create a more balanced and representative of our world mix” will be the same on any platform, whether the recipient of the message a user of Android smartphones, iOS or another platform. In summary this means “no more broken black boxes or emojis that simply don’t make sense”.
Expand the role of women is another element in this new batch, since we will see “an officer police, a runner and a surfer”, etc, in addition to being able to choose the color of skin you want in the same way that we have been doing on other platforms like WhatsApp, along with new features not seen before as a red-haired emoji. And if you ask you when you can start using them, the answer is from today, June 2, day according to Facebook starts worldwide updates, so we suggest that you take a look at the Messenger app during the day to see if in Spain is updated today itself.
The article Facebook Messenger announced more than 1,500 new emojis was published in MovilZona.