I love emojis. Yup. That's me, in 2026. Out loud and proud. The caveat — of course, there's a caveat — is that my emoji love is very specific: I love using emojis to modify messages in a text chat. This feels dumb to explain, because you have phones, so you've almost certainly seen this, even if you're not using it yourself. But to be clear: You use these when your friend tells you the dinner reservation is for 7, and you reply by appending a "thumbs up" to their note. Or someone posts