The Dramatic Viewpoint Of Someone Who Can't Use The New Emojis
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The Dramatic Viewpoint Of Someone Who Can't Use The New Emojis

The struggle of being too stubborn to update your phone.

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The Dramatic Viewpoint Of Someone Who Can't Use The New Emojis

With 2015 being the year of the iPhone, with a new season comes a new iOS update. The latest is iOS 9.1, which may lead you to ask—what's the difference? To be honest, I'm sure there are plenty of differences, but only one is actually important to us.


That's right, the long awaited taco and many other new additions have joined the emoji keyboard. Highly requested options such as a unicorn, a certain country's flag, and even a middle finger can be added to your hieroglyphic conversations with your friends.


As exciting as this is, some of you are probably in the same boat as me—the boat of refusing to update your iPhone. Your mind filled with past experiences of excitedly getting the newest iOS, ready to use all of its cool new features, but then feeling complete betrayal when it slows down your beloved iPhone to the point of it being unusable.


Usually controlling myself from updating my phone is easy, but this time it's proving to be a challenge. While my friends are all celebrating the new emojis, I am the outcast who is torn between protecting her iPhone and being able to actually know what's going on in a conversation.


My other stubborn friends are slowly giving in one by one, and as they give into temptation, I come closer to doing it too. My mind is consumed with thoughts of being able to send an upside-down smiley face, having almost every country's flag at my fingertips, and being to be able to use the new lion during conversations with my sorority sisters.


Although it's a hard battle, I can still be comforted by the classics like the receptionist desk girl, the see-no-evil monkey, and the unamused face, but is it enough?


I want to continue fighting, but every time I see a question mark in my conversation that stands in place of a new emoji I suffer another fatal blow of temptation. Images of unicorns and tacos are dancing in my head. How long can I resist, how long will I last? Probably not by the end of this article.


Okay, Shia Lebouf, you're right. I'm going to go update my phone now. Bye!

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