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I\u2019ve started receiving emails from actual companies that actually have products that make them millions of dollars with cartoon characters in the subject line. Grown adults shouldn\u2019t be sending cartoon characters to each other. There\u2019s a reason why I\u2019ve blocked my sisters from being able to text me via Google Voice and iMessage. They can call me on a telephone because the last thing I want is having to read a comic-strip while I\u2019m driving and figuring out what a baseball and a grappling hook and a pizza means in response to \u201cAre you coming to visit me this Winter?\u201d<\/p>\n
On iOS 9, my options are pretty bleak. I have the iOS 9 Keyboard for Emoji removed or at least I never had it but I still receive them. On OS X, I can\u2019t disable them at all. The best thing I can do is to opt out of emails I actually wanted to receive on the grounds that you\u2019re acting like a child and cluttering my computer with comic book characters.\u00a0<\/p>\n
If Emoji and Software-Keyboards become normal, I may have to finally go off the grid forever.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve started receiving emails from actual companies that actually have products that make them millions of dollars with…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:05:38Z","apple_news_api_id":"f7d3282f-cdd4-4e3f-b2e7-bb0a888488b4","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:05:38Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A99MoL83UTj-y57sKiISItA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-technology","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1nb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5954,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/06\/08\/technology-emojis-versus-stickers\/","url_meta":{"origin":5281,"position":0},"title":"Technology: Emojis versus Stickers","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"June 8, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Unicode.org: Emoji are pictographs (pictorial symbols) that are typically presented in a colorful cartoon form and used inline in text. 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