Facebook rolls out new family emoji, but there’s something missing
Facebook has rolled out 125 new family emoji, expanding the default yellow skin tone to include light, medium, and darker tones, and more family combinations. Though the rollout enables users to have more options, all of the family members that comprise each emoji still share the same skin tone. That means there’s no representation of interracial families.
Last year, Microsoft added 52,000 family emoji to its Windows 10 update with different combinations that included interracial families and single parent families, the first time an operating system had ever done so. Though well intentioned, Facebook’s step in being inclusive falls into the trap of not accounting for all possibilities.
As noted by TechCrunch, multi-tone family emoji…
