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2013年，emoji一词正式入驻牛津在线词典，人们才惊觉这小小的表情符竟能如此造势。emoji贴纸，emoji衣服，emoji瑜伽……似乎一切和emoji挂钩的事物变得时尚有趣起来，除此之外，emoji也给一些古灵精怪的人带来了很多新奇的体验——从前，有个人决定只吃emoji里才有的食物，然后她……从前，有对情侣整整一个月只用emoji交流，结果他们……而这次，为了探究emoji能否取代文字的地位，作者也要充当小白鼠去尝试只用emoji聊天的生活了，不知道会有什么状况等着她呢? Emoji—A small digital image or icon used to express an idea, emotion, etc. in electronic communications. Emoji 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, emoji yoga , and the list goes on and on with no sign of ending. As emoji spreads into our culture, I’ve actually heard the following question: Is emoji moving to replace communicating with the written word? To find out, I communicated via iMessage using only emoji 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 wasn’t allowed to cheat by moving the conversation to Facebook or Twitter, etc., but I could send a phone emoji to indicate to the recipient of my texts that they could call me instead; I could not instigate the phone call myself. 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 conversing with to overthrow their use of text and start using emoji while talking to me. | 
