RLS 321

First Order:

1 - He and his team created 176 characters, 12 pixels square

2 - the US Library of Congress accepted a 'translation' into emoji of Herman Melville's Moby Dick

3 - In October 2010, a hand-picked selection of 722 emoji characters were finally cemented into Unicode across sets such as 'Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs', 'Emoticons' and 'Transport and Map Symbols'.

 

 
Second Order: 

1 - a huge industry exists to embellish and enhance your messages with whatever pictures you like

2 - MessageMe and Cubie have moved into the realm of 'stickers': sets of images, a little larger than emoji, that people can buy and send to each other in order to convey emotions that some would say words simply can't express.

 
Knowledge Question:

To what extent can emoji or pictures be used as a way of communication?