Language is being really massacred by texts and emojis

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Language is being massacred by texts and emojis. 

Who would have imagined you can add a Friend online. 

That you can Like a a post, a message, article, meme, photograph online. 

The emoji options like Love, Like, Laugh, and Angry are meant to convey real emotions , or rather distort emotions. 

I find using a heart emoji to acknowledge a WhatsApp text is the most disorienting and artificial manner of communication. It's almost vulgar to use heart /love for everything, even amongst my closest. Because even to verbally say "Oh I love this or I love that or I love you" loses meaning when it's thrown around. 

I find it even stranger when it's used in communication with folks we don't know closely. 

For sure in Pakistani society, folks don't really smile at each other in public. So, if we can't even smile at each other in public , how are so generous with hearts? Isn't it artificial and insincere? 

Americans are really more generous with hugs and definitely smile more in public. Perhaps it's more sincere when Americans send hearts to each other? 

Pakistanis are of course massacring both Urdu and English. I am genuinely horrified each time I hear people talk. In fact, I'm going to make a compendium of all my ears are tortured to hear: "Door band kardein", "Smell a rahee hai", "Spoon de dain." 

LinkedIn is even worse. Their emoji options are Like , Celebrate, Love, Funny, Support and Insightful. How can emojis replace language and communication? In a so-called professional platform, are emojis really going to count for something? 

I think language is now only going to live in a separate realm of speakers, thinkers, writers and readers. I don't even mean it in a pretentious way. 

Who knows? Maybe I'm too old. 

By the way, Google doesn't even agree with me: 

No emojis are not destroying language instead they are a modern and efficient way to convey nonverbal cues like tone and emotion that are missing in digital communication similar to how people use gestures and facial expressions in in-person conversations. While some critics view emojis as a sign of lazy or simplistic communication many linguists and experts see them as a natural creative evolution of language that adds nuance to text rather than replacing words entirely.