Google wants me to use emojis in email. I'm delighted about this.

Getty Images; Tyler Le/BI Emojis are cringe. I also love them — in text chains, where you can accomplish a lot with a single character. Which is why Google adding emojis to Gmail this year is a huge deal — for me. But you should start using them, too. I love emojis. Yup. That's me, in 2026. Out loud and proud. The caveat — of course, there's a caveat — is that my emoji love is very specific: I love using emojis to modify messages in a text chat. This feels dumb to explain, because you have ...