The new emoticons are available in every colour – yellow, white, variants of brown and black. They say that it is to respect racial diversity. They say that people can identify more with emoticons now. But I fail to understand how!
How do my emotions change with colour? I mean if I have to wish my friend good luck and I wish to use the “thumbs up” emoticon, using a brown coloured emoticon will mean that my wishes are more intense because hey look, I am putting across my skin colour to you while wishing?
Having a single colour was neutral because it never ignited the thought that WhatsApp is being a racist by having the emoticons in white colour. But now, they are unknowingly instigating a feeling of contempt in the users. Think about it realistically, isn’t? You might be unknowingly(sic) making fun of someone’s skin colour.
I feel that this step is such a lame attempt by WhatsApp to do I don’t know what. However, I can never hate WhatsApp. And to take things on the lighter note, they introduced this super amazing emoticon that we all wanted like forever 😉
@Roshan I agree. It not only promotes racism but also a feeling of complex and contempt. I hate this upgrade.
@Geets
Geniuses think alike! 😉
@Pragati
Indeed! This is hilarious as well as outright attack on the integrity of a world that stands united when using the technology.
Just an opinion though.
And thank you for dropping by.
@Specs Buffy
Thank you so much for reading and appreciating. I hope to give you more food for thought via my blog 🙂
@Anonymous
Though they say that they are trying to be inclusive, this is more of an attempt to be exclusive. Getting the point?
ya, I agree too. While I was first surprised to see it, my immediate reaction was "ugh". I would have wanted more fun emoticons. In fact, yellow was a perfectly fine colour for me.. it remained neutral. Giving shades of skin tones was a step back.
Yes.. it's totally lame.. I had the same thoughts when I saw the upgrade..!! It's like promoting racism.. which is not at all needed, at least here..!!
You have exactly written what was there in my mind!!
Cheers
I am not big on WhatsApp…but this is hilarious…and why not?
Yes..you have indeed hit the nail on the head and brought out something that is worth pondering !
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/24/apple-adds-racially-diverse-emoji-and-they-come-in-five-skin-shades
It is actually an attempt to be more inclusive
@Shailaja Ma'am, I just hope Facebook and Twitter don't bring in such disappointment. Though we might not be using it a lot, but the idea of being racist in this manner disturbs me a lot.
Yes I always did wonder about this ridiculous multi-coloured hands on whatsapp! Thankfully, I rarely use it these days. Facebook and twitter keep me busy enough and away from Whatsapp 🙂