Emojis are a fun way of enhancing messages to communicate feelings, emotions and intent. I found myself using them more and more and sometimes only communicating with emojis. I was fascinated with the versatility and ease of the emoticon language. Noticing the sticking the tongue out was my favorite to use emoji I grabbed my phone and snapped a selfie posing as the emoji. The photo was hilarious! There is no way I would actually use that in text conversations and yet I did with emoticons. That’s how the idea of personalized emojis came to be. To explore this concept I conducted a study that included a random sample of 20 millennials at a college campus. This is a catalog documenting how people use and relate to emojis and their reaction to personalized emojis.
