Six Flags Great Adventure is Getting a Major Upgrade this Summer!

Six Flags opens in May and a major upgrade is headed our way!

New Jersey's Six Flags Hurricane Harbor is adding SEVEN colorful new slides — Cowabunga, Jellyfish Twist, RipCurl, Shark Attack, Splashin’ Seal, and Stingray Racer — will be aimed at younger riders.

Families will be able to rent new cabanas and oversized umbrellas. An outdoor dining option will be open just across the bridge from Splash Island, as well.

Are you guilty of misusing emojis? If you're older than 35 chances you are. (Scroll down for a guide to the Most Misused Emojis.) You truly have no idea what kids are saying with these things anymore! If you ever looked at your kids' phone and saw complete conversations in emoji they could be talking about anything from school to parents (that's right ... YOU!!!) to drugs. Yeah. Click the "drugs" link to read up on that because it's terrifying.

I hear that all the time from my teenaged daughter, Tori, but in my defense I usually do things wrong just to annoy her. It works, but it doesn't mean I know how to do it right. I'm just really good at getting it wrong. I like to wear it like a badge. Whether it's a phrase like, "ur mom," (it took all of my being to spell that the way she does) or a hand gesture (I'll leave that to your imagination), even if I do it right I'm not doing it right. It's one of the burdens of being a mom, I suppose. I'll never be cool enough for my daughter.

If you can relate, you're probably going to be shocked when you see that you are also misusing emojis. I mean, aren't they obvi?

Have you ever received this message from your kid: 💀 😭 and thought something was horribly wrong? Well, you're wrong. That means, "I'm dead," which means something is actually funny. If you've fallen prey to this misconception, you can check out the Emojipedia (for realz) or just read on ...

Unicode came out with a few lists of most used, least used, and misused emojis. Check them out below, make your adjustments, and wow your kids with just how emoji-savvy you can be, Cool Mom! And then keep scrolling to find out which emoji you're misusing. Take notes

Flags.

The least popular subcategory? Country-flags.

They represent the largest collection (258 emoji!), but are used the least. Animal-mammal are the next largest subcategory (53 emoji!). Given that new emoji have to demonstrate they are not overly specific and need to break new ground, this suggests animal emoji are at saturation level.

Here is the difference in most popular emoji from 2019 and 2021:

2019: 😂 ❤️ 😍 🤣 😊 🙏 💕 😭 😘 👍

2021: 😂 ❤️ 🤣 👍 😭 🙏 😘 🥰 😍 😊

U.S. Emoji Trend Report came out last year and points out that emojis “don’t always mean what you think they do and are always changing.” As a matter of fact, nearly half of those surveyed (47%) say they sent an emoji “that was misinterpreted or taken out of context.” To help us stay on top of these ever-changing emoji meanings, TikTok comedian Ethan Blanko, known for his videos explaining what certain emojis mean to “parents and people over the age of 35,” explains the top 10 most-misused emojis.