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iPhone's New Politically Correct Emoji Awkwardness

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Every once in a while, pretty much every day, I get a new update notification for one of my devices. A phone update, a software update, or a notification somewhere to download something to make life better. Apple just recently updated my iPhone with a new layout for those emoji icons, and I noticed something cool: there are hands for white people, yellow people, brown people, black people, red people, blue people, and purple people. Just kidding, not that many colors.

iPhone's new emoji icons with colored handsI think it is pretty cool stuff. Now I get to use a brown “thumbs up” emoticon because if I use another color, people will think that I am trying to be someone that I’m not.

They also made gay couple ones, and a bunch of other kinds. I still haven’t discovered all of them just yet, but I noticed that they added more flags of the world. There is a Mexican flag now, woo! Go Mexico!

Though yes, they may be opening up a door for those people who like to complain about everything, they might say that Apple discriminates because they didn’t match their correct skin color, or that they’re missing a bowl of Fruit Loops on there because it is their favorite kind of cereal.

I found one of these really cool, I like the running people:

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But okay, seriously what is up with the horse rider. They all look the same to me:

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I’m kidding guys. But seriously, don’t they all look the same?

I'd rather talk to Siri

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I enjoy conversation.

It is one of the things I always make time for, whether its over the phone or over coffee, over email and even on Twitter. Yes, to all the people that follow me, my apologies for filling up your homepages with things like “@edwinsfriend that is way too awesome, and then what happened?” but I can’t stop myself. Yes, sometimes it gets in the way when I’m doing something important, but –Oh, phone! Hold on.

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Sorry about that.

Anyway, in a group setting, conversations are completely different. Think about these:

  • An Awkward Silence between just two people is easy to overcome, and sure every once in a while both of you try to break the silence by saying something at the same time and then have to do the whole”Oh sorry, you go,”
    “No, no, I was going to say something dumb,”

    But in reality you were both going to say the first thing that popped into your head anyway, maybe about a new flavor of popcorn you tried, or a Facebook status you read. Facebook statuses are where conversations go to die.

    This is very different when you’re in a group. A group awkward silence is even more awkward if nobody attempts to bring the conversation back. Eventually the conversation-saver gets tired or distracted and the whole situation gets weird. If you’re all eating and happen to put food in your mouths at the same time, it will be all silence and then chewing noises for a while.

  • People have things to say, and some people don’t want to hear them. Have you ever been in a group conversation and started speaking about something, only to notice that nobody is listening to you? You look around desperately for someone to make eye contact with and finish your story.. but when it doesn’t happen, you just begin to get quieter and quieter, hoping that the gradual decrescendo will help out your embarrassment from becoming too obvious.
  • Ever told an awesome joke that makes everyone in your group laugh? You just stand there, with so much power while everyone else laughs it out.. so awesome.
  • Every once in a while, someone will want you to tell a story. Of course, prior to asking you to tell it, they made sure it had been ridiculously hyped up and expected to be the second greatest story ever told.. but midway through your story you realize that its not that great, and once you reach the conclusion of it, nobody thinks its the end of it because it hasn’t gotten awesome yet. So you’re forced to just glare at your friend who made you tell it. It gets awkward as soon as someone asks “So, that’s it?”

Some people prefer groups, others prefer one on one conversations.. how do you like to communicate? Text? Call? Email?

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