How Technology is Changing the Way We Communicate
I believe technology is evolving the ways in which we communicate.Forty years ago, the ways in which we communicated were limited to face-to-face, letter or telephone. It should be no surprise that as new technologies emerge to make life easier, new ways to communicate emerge as well. The two most popular technologically advanced medians in which we communicate are email and the internet (personal web pages, chat rooms, etc...). Email may be the biggest evolutionary advance in communication in modern history. Initially, email was thought that they were too impersonal. Like written mail, how do you convey tone of voice, sarcasm, and nonverbal cues in which the reader gets a feel for how his message is being received? The answer is as ingenious as email itself, emoticons. Emoticons, according to Adler (1997), are combinations of keyboard characters that rela
Ten years ago I don't believe anyone believed that communication and the above medians would intertwine to the extent they currently do. I also believe that like our predecessors, we can only guess what the future of communication has in store for us. Although it may seem hard to think about the future of email, I believe society will find ways to make it more personal due to the level of convenience it offers. In the business world, email is often frowned upon due to its impersonal nature. It may work for interoffice messages replacing the memo system, but I believe anyone who has been in a business environment trusts face to face communication sealed with a handshake rather than electronic correspondence. I believe there should be a balance of both. According to Adler (1997), "emailers can choose the desired level of clarity or ambiguity, seriousness or humor, logic or emotion. Unlike face-to-face communication, electronic co
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