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Facebook Just Released A Set Of Brand New Emojis

PSafe Newsroom — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 16:00:03 +0000

Facebook continues to roll out new features to its website and its mobile apps at record speed. Although you may use Facebook apps more than their website, they have recently revealed new, more heavily-detailed emojis for their desktop and mobile websites. All of the emojis have been redesigned, and now feature skin tones and shading. Thousands of new emojis were added to the Facebook site. Some of these emojis include: a man in a tuxedo, a prince, a floating business man, “face palm,” and a pregnant woman.

It’s unclear if these new emojis will be added to the Facebook Messenger app. Both the website and the Messenger app have very different emojis in design and variety. For now, this a great option for those who dominantly use Facebook in a web browser. These new emojis are also easier for users to see — they should be able to more easily distinguish between various emojis in order to find the one that they’re looking for.

New Emojis on Facebook Messenger
Facebook has also released new emoji features to Facebook Messenger. The app had previously released a new Snapchat-inspired Stories feature, in addition to encrypted messaging, among other features. Now, the Messenger app is releasing new emojis to help improve your experience with Facebook Messenger. Finally, there may now be the perfect emoji to express how you’re really feeling.

Through the Messenger app, you can now “react” to a person’s message similar to how you react to a Facebook post. You can send a “love” emoji, a “laughing” emoji, an “angry” emoji, a “sad” emoji, a “surprised” emoji, a thumbs up, or a thumbs down to react to a message. To access these emojis, you’ll need to press down on the particular message that you want to react to. Then, you’ll select which emoji you want to express how you feel. These emoji reactions will work on both group chat and single chat messaging.

You may have noticed that the list of emoji reactions includes a “thumbs down,” or a “dislike” option. Although Facebook has yet to include this option in the news feed emoji reactions, they have done so for Messenger since the app is often used for making plans. That way, users can easily respond with a “thumbs up” or “thumbs down” to indicate that they can or can’t go (or agree or disagree with a plan).

How Have the Emojis We Love Evolved Over the Years?

PSafe Newsroom — Mon, 17 Oct 2016 18:16:40 +0000

Emojis are so common that you might not even think about them before you use them. But, like anything digital, emojis were new — and confusing — to new computer users when they were first introduced in the 1990’s. Here, we’ll talk about the ubiquitous emoji — where it’s been, where it is now, and where it’s going.

The History of Emojis
Emojis were originally introduced in Japan nearly two decades ago. Shigetaka Kurita created the emoji in the mid-1990s. In the early days, users simply put together different symbols to look like faces. They were simply a string of keyboard icons put together in emails to express conversation. The symbols didn’t transform into anything else like they do today; instead, a colon and a parenthesis were used together to look like a smiling face or a semicolon and a parenthesis were used to make a winking face.

Emojis in Present Day
Now, emojis are automatically transformed into smiling, usually yellow emoticons when you type the symbols into a variety of programs. You can also choose from a number of action-oriented emoticons in your texting, chatting, or email applications that range from a girl dancing the hula to a smiling face with two heart eyes blowing a kiss. Currently, there are 140 emoji characters common to apps and devices.

Emojis do more these days than just display your emotion. For example, you can use Fooji, a New York City food delivery service, to order food using a series of emojis. Dominos also will deliver pizzas to your door if you simply #OrderWithaTweet using a pizza emoji. In email, emojis in the subject line are helping marketing campaigns — users are less likely to delete emails with happy emojis in the subject line.

The Future of Emojis
Emojis are being created to better represent people’s daily lives. Femojis have been created to represent women aiming for gender equality, and “abused” emojis are designed to help children report abuse. There are 250 new emojis coming to standard devices in the near future — who knows what they will look like?

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I Am A Witness: Antibullying Emoji Campaign

PSafe Newsroom — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 21:33:36 +0000

There are lots of apps available that can make your life less dangerous. But now kids can support their friends through being bullied — and help to stop it — with a unique set of emojis. Called I Am a Witness, the keyboard is designed to stop bullying by helping kids point out cruelties, which, according to the app, can be remedied simply by someone calling out bullies. Here, we’ll discuss some of the best features — and a few drawbacks — to the I Am a Witness app.

The Purpose
According to the I Am a Witness app, 81% of bullying ends when someone steps in to stop it. That’s the function of the I Am a Witness app. In group chats or private messages on phones, kids can tell friends to stop saying nasty things about other members of the text conversation using an emoji or a sticker. They can also support bullied students by sending them private messages letting them know they aren’t alone.

The Witness Emojis
There are several types of emojis available, all in a bright and fun pop art style. There are multi-colored staring eyes letting bullies know they are being watched. To support bullied friends, kids can send kind messages like “Stay Cool” or “Don’t Listen” to offer visual sympathy. The app is completely free, so kids don’t have to buy anything to offer their support to bullied peers.

Reviews
Most of the users of I Am Witness really liked the app — it has over a four-star rating in the Google Play store. A number of users say that the app really helps to stop bullying. Not everyone is such a fan, however. Some reviewers say that the app often crashes, while others don’t like that the app asks for too much data from users. Additional keyboard users don’t like that keyboards takes up too much of the phone’s screen

I Am Witness helps your kids support their friends. If you want to make sure your kids can always stick up for their friends, download PSafe Total onto their smartphones. PSafe’s Memory Booster helps them optimize their data, clear out clutter from their storage, and speed up their devices. Kids can have a lot of junk on their phones, and PSafe will help you help them clean.