This is a highly debated topic which has concerned a huge amount of specialists and ordinary people, not only in the past but also nowadays. It is normal because of the transcendental importance of language due to it is the definitive human characteristic that defines us and tells us apart from the other animals. Who we are? Where do we come from? What is our significance in this immense universe? Perhaps, the way of solving these queues is as simple as understanding ourselves.
Firstly, it is important to understand what is the power of communication with words. When we started using a language we also began to be capable of thinking about the future, predicting it and imagining plans. The other animals, although they could communicate with others of their species, couldn't do that. In addition, the definitive relevance of reasoning with words is that we started to think about ourselves, about our identity. The typical example is that if an animal sees itself in a mirror, it won't be capable of understand what is that, however, we can do it.
As a result, language is not only used to communicate with others, which is the main argument of the people who agree with the use of emoticons. Moreover, it will be a disaster to lose this amazing human ability. As I see it, we can indeed express our emotions and moods with images or videos, our ancestors were also capable of that. But the evolution has been in the direction of making more complicated this process, and it has had its reasons.
Apart from that, recent studies have shown up that an extreme use of emoticons make it worse our writing and use of language. We can't allow that, and some measures must be carried out. The human future depends on the present, we can't succumb to an unreasoning world, or we will be going to the past.
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