The first emoji part 2

 The first emoji was created in 1999 by a Japanese guy named Shigetaka Kurita. He started them because he wanted a way to be able to communicate more effectively and faster. At first he made on 189 emojis. But right now there is over 1,800 emojis. An emoji is a small face you can send over text to communicate how you're feeling. For example if your feeling happy you can send a smiley face. If your feeling sad you can send a sad face to express your emotions over text. This is especially good if your a shy person who wants to express themselves but is afraid to do so. At first emojis were only a thing in Japan and Americans thought it was weird. But eventually it made it over to the United States, making it one of the most popular things today. There are several movies out about emojis. For example there is a movie out right now called the emoji movie. emojis are on there way to becoming their own language and there is doubt in my mind they will.

Link: https://www.wired.com/story/guide-emoji/

History of the emoji

 Emoji as we know them today, however, got their start in Japan. In fact, the word "emoji" can be translated to "image character." Emoji were officially invented in the 1990s, thanks to a man named Shigetaka Kurita and the company he worked for, Docomo. Emoji have certainly made a lot of progress in recent years, with fresher appearances and greater variety; but originally, where did emoji come from? In a rather entertaining new video, Mental Floss' Big Questions series explains the history of the emoji and how they came to be. Let's take a look at a few of the highlights, shall we? And scroll down to watch the full video, of course it's as amusing as it is enlightening.The start of emoji, however, was much more humble. People weren't texting each other pictures of paw prints and salsa dancers and flexing arms; in fact, it all began with something simple and seemingly boring to some: Punctuation.It all started with emoticons facial expressions made out of punctuation which made their first appearance in an issue of an 1881 magazine. You heard me: 1881.Emoticons are old as hell. It was just about 100 years later (1982, to be exact) that emoticons were first incorporated into computer language, and they became more mainstream after the turn of the millennium.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji

Google issues

 The attorney general for forty eight US states launched an investigation on google this week. This investigation is concerning weather or not google is violating the antitrust law. The investigation will focus on the advertising market and weather google broke the law in achieving dominance in the industry.  Google's company alphabet has a market value of over eight hundred and twenty billion dollars in the last year. Some companies have fined google for promoting its own ads in its own search. A lot of advertiers think google yields to much power and that they should not be trusted with all that power. The google company's chief executive states that google's products help people everyday. Since launching this investigation into google the federal government has also been urged to check out facebook. Google has a strong grasp of the market and it becomes a system of whatever google says. Google uses this thing called digital ad dollars and it helps promote google's ad system. Google also shows ads not based on if the people who pay them are good or not. They show ads based on what companies or people pay them the most. For example in the article a parent talks about hiring a doctor and googling good doctors. After the parent did that all these ads came up for doctors but they were not good ones. They got awful ratings and the parent complained. Google still tries to put fake ads based on awful advertising. This is a major key factor of why google is getting looked into and being investigated. Who knows what the future will hold for google but it will be greatly impacted if these federal laws are held against them. If they lose the lawsuit as well. 

Link: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-antitrust-probe-48-u-s-states-launch-antitrust-investigation-of-google-dominance-in-search-ads-and-data/h

Facebook expanding

 Facebook has been receiving a lot of backlash lately for all its privacy problems. Ever since people discovered that Facebook can track you and is tracking you it's been quite unsettling. People became concerned as it was. Then the cherry on the cake happened. Millions of facebook accounts got hacked. A lot of people's personal information became the product of black market information. It also became known that Facebook was giving out people's personal information to other big companies like Amazon and Yahoo. People became outraged and felt that all their personal information was everywhere and exposed. Also facebook collected calls and datas from peoples phones if they were running on a google android system. In the end after many lawsuits facebook is settled to pay five billion for privacy mishaps. Paying this is their small fine to pay. It does not due justice to all the privacy lost and all the personal information wasted that Facebook gave companies access to. I feel that after this hopefully facebook has learned their lesson and is not subject to do this kind of act again. Some people claim that facebook getting caught and fined is well needed. For breech has been happening for the past eight years.

article/source: https://globalnews.ca/news/5676260/facebook-fined-5-billion-privacy-violations/