Good day to you all my tutors and learners here on hive.

I remain this humble soul who is always ready to appreciate my existence on the surface, once we realize that staying alive is never by our power or might then we know that all we have to do in life is to thank God for his mercy and grace over us.

We are all familiar with the social media of today. Gone are days when our means of communication was only by town crying or mailing messages and getting delivered for years. The advent of chat apps has made things easier through everything with its advantages and disadvantages.

These chat apps have made our conversations even more lively and interactive. Compared to calls. Though many still prefer to go for calls and go for as long as they could then to be on chats and many also prefer to remain on chat apps for a very long time. It’s a choice to be made though.

Chatting is just a conversation with words turning into sentences and at times it could range down to a lot of paragraphs. Then expressing our emotions most times through words, gifs, emoji, and stickers.

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This would take me straight to the prompt for week 49 edition 2 on the hive learners community and the topic to be discussed is EMOJI, STICKERS, AND GIFS.

Which is my favorite Emoji Or Sticker??

I can’t say I prefer one over the other but I am more used to emojis than stickers. Stickers nowadays have turned to something else and most times I see it as a halt to conversations. It might not find the exact meaning of our expression and on the receiver's end, it might just mean something else.

But for emojis, there are a lot of emojis enough to give your expressions and continue with your chat. When sent the receiver would quickly take a grab of the meaning. Another advantage I see about emojis is that they can be used in the middle of a sentence or at the beginning or even at the end which stickers can’t. It can be sent alone as a message, the same as stickers too.

I prefer emojis over stickers to talk about gifs. Gifs are just something else entirely. They are just not suitable for use in chats and are not even common. It expresses the user's expression very well but the drawback here is the fact that it might be too big for the chat 😂 😂. So that is why I am exempting gifs in the battle.

Gifs are more important when it comes to using them on blogs. They are the best form of expression on blogs and vlogs because they are bold enough and also animated to show the author’s point of view.