Emoji: The Language of the Future | Tracey Pickett | TEDxGreenville

In 2014, Tracey launched her first entrepreneurial venture, Eboticon - a media design company with a mission to create dynamic and culturally relevant emojis for niche social groups. Eboticon combined the appeal of emojis, gifs, and memes to give users the ability to more fully express themselves across multiple digital platforms.
Tracey Pickett is a passionate entrepreneur, attorney, inventor and musician. Tracey began her legal career at a Fortune 5 technology company working in the areas of corporate and intellectual property law. An attorney by day, Tracey spent nights and weekends developing her true passion for entrepreneurship.
The company's apps have topped the Apple App Store charts as the #2 Paid App Overall and the #1 Paid Social Networking app. Eboticon Emoji apps have been downloaded in over 70 countries and featured in publications including the International Business Times.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@nicholas.ohamadike]

Thanks for this, Tracey. I'm glad I stumbled upon this video. It had broaden my knowledge on my current project.

[@ChamaGoblin]

This speech helped me the most working on my research project ❤️ high five to the speaker

[@BenZinnar]

I like Emojis. They revived ancient pictographic systems. 🙂

[@nickanderson2855]

I COULDN'T TAKE MY EYES OF OF HER. SHE'S SO CONFIDENT.

[@KiaRashan]

Go, Tracey!!! So proud of you, great talk.

[@traceypickett4803]

Watching Apple's iPhone X event and the introduction of Animojis! Making faces to create emojis is now a real thing!

[@stem-eedankimberly9069]

1. Emoji - the most significant advancement of human communications. EVOLUTION OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION -PICTOGRAPH -PRINTING PRESS - We can transport paper -COMPUTER- the most incredible because we can communicate with anyone, anywhere with just the tip or our finger tips using devices. due to this evolution, the human communication changes as we all know, human communication in face to face should be emotional but with the media computer, it's not. according to element of personal Communication, 7% spoken words lamg nagagamit natim, 38% percent for the voice and body and 55 for the body language. Nowadays, Text message is a dominant way of communication. The fastest growing language in history. they are starting to fill the gab left by facial expressions. Our brains are processing emoji, it help represents our Day to day emotions .

[@kevinwilliams3272]

Lovely thought-provoking talk, Tracey. But in the end I see little real interest in emojis. I use them sometimes for humour or to see if I can arouse the imagination (and understanding) of the person I'm writing to. But there are so many things I wouldn't know how to "say" with emojis, in particular the thing I most want to say to YOU, Tracey: "I am hypnotized by - and completely under the spell of - your absolutely gorgeous high heels." ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[@giangnguyen-zt5jq]

The speech not only be great but it also has a sense of humour. I'm so excited about it

[@tralauren]

Happy #worldemojiday everyone!

[@francismausley7239]

It's possible to make a new excellent language... "A universal language shall be adopted and taught in the schools and academies of the world. A committee appointed by the national bodies shall select a suitable language to be used as a means of international communication. Every one will need but two languages, his national tongue and the universal language. All will acquire the international language." - Abdu’l-Baha, Baha'i Faith

[@PalkkiTT]

Im suprised there is zero emojis in the comments. Lets change that!

[@SilverBackGorillaSak]

❤

[@CreepyGuy995]

It would be nice to see a new video on how this situation is evolving. New generation use less emojis than older ones, it would be interesting to understand why, and how it affects communication between them, but also between them and someone older who still uses emojis.

[@RATHEHITMAKER]

🙄🧢

[@nicoevo]

Ok❗ I'm gonna read just comments with emoji 👁️📄💬

[@karlpages1970]

The green gun , while being a great idea, should come with a smile inclusive. We need more internationally trained linguist designing and consenting for important industry specific emojis. Definately adjudicated by international specialists and not tech companies or governments. The current emojis will evolve but does any civilised person want business having too much manipulation of a developing language at this nurturing stage?

[@realar]

She helped make the Emoji Movie didn't she?

[@kevankwok01]

Emojis are generally lazy, impersonal & generic. Yes they are efficient, universal & fun opening a new form of communication but they are also the lowest common denominator of expression. Just look at the actual effect on society. When all people know how to do is respond to something with preconfigured claps, fires, smiley faces and heart symbols, the art and craft of language & the effort of a truly personalised response is being lost. If you went through months of interviews and got a new job, would you want your good friends to respond just with a 'yassss gurrrl' emoji? Or would a call or more personalised text feel more nourishing? It's a reflection of the decimation of attention spans ignited by social media and the excessive amount of content available. Used in conjunction with other forms of communication, it is useful, but it has almost become the sole means of communication on social media.

[@A.Person.Who.Exists]

🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@mephista55]

"Biggly" ???

[@soyeonkc]

😊

[@pedrobarbalho7057]

After she used the distortion of Mehrabian's data like she used I couldn't take her seriously anymore and stopped watching the video.

[@poupouillemononoke6619]

Mediocre... :/