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Ask a Tween

What's Your Favorite Emoji?

May 08, 2015 | 8 videos
Video by The Atlantic

In this installment of "Ask a Tween," students at Washington D.C.'s Alice Deal Middle School tell us about their favorite emoji. "Sometimes in chats, I'll spam the monkey symbol," Ricardo, a 12-year-old, says. "I call it a monkey spam. I don’t know why I do it, it’s…it’s weird."

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Authors: Nadine Ajaka, Paul Rosenfeld