[Music] [Music] [Applause] Hey besties. I'm loving being here tonight. So, I work in an aftercare program with kids from kindergarten through fifth grade. One day a kid came up to me and told me that another kid had phantom tax. Huh? Normally kids come up to me and they try to be funny. So I thought that he was just saying some random gibberish. So I was like, "What are you doing. We're supposed to be eating snack right now. " Honestly, at this moment I was annoyed. The busiest time of day is when kids get ...

[Music] I have a confession to make. I can't text or even email without using emojis. And now they have made their way into my TEDx too.But what if this habit says more about how communication is evolving and what we are changing in the process. Let's face it, language has undergone a major upgrade in the digital era. If you look back at how people communicated 20 or even 30 years ago, you would see paragraphs, really long ones.Now, memes, gifs, stickers, and emojis are like the digital seasoning to every s ...