We have become a society that relies on our cell phones. We are constantly emailing, texting and facebooking at tall hours of the day and all over the world. One of the downfalls of this type of communication is the ability to portray emotion. There are some characters that allow us to communicate some emotions such as: “J” “:D” “;)” “:/” “:0” and many others. Only with these do they show a smile on your face or a look of indifference. My best friend is constantly glued to her BBM (Blackberry Messenger). We constantly read messages in the wrong way and take a statement in the wrong way. Something that was intended to be a joke may be the result of a petty argument. The acts of texting and other electrical communication devices does not offer the receiver to view paralanguage patterns from the sender. And in this lack of encoding with body language, messages are not transferred from sender to receiver correctly.
Friday, October 9, 2009
Chapter 5 - Question #3
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Kolby, I agree with your standpoint on this post. I think that texting and emails often go misinterpreted. I have gotten into a lot of altercations with friends and family members over the way a text message or email was worded. I think that sometimes it is just easier to pick up the phone and let people know how you feel, even though it is not as convenient as text message or email. I think that it is interesting that a sentence that is typed can be read a million different ways with different tones of voices. I love the convenient of these devices, but sometimes the old fashioned way is just better!!
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ReplyDeleteYou bring up an extremely interesting topic. I believe we take this sort of thing for granted because we consider social networking and electronic communication as verbal. Reason being is because we communicate with words electronically. However, I didn’t even consider the growing popularity of sending your emotions electronically. What do these symbols (emotions) actually mean? Can they be interpreted multiple ways? I believe the answer is yes.
If I write someone a message and end it with the following:
:) ;) or :p
Are these happy looking faces conveying the same message? I don’t believe so, but it’s possible. As we grow our interest in modern day technology, I believe we will see more ambiguity with expressions in regards to nonverbal communication. Very interesting topic.
I totally 100% agree with this. We do rely on technology on such things as facebook, myspace, twitter, etc. But it is hard to know what a person is really saying. I believe that us as a society spend too much time on services like these and they hurt us as a whole. Since we use these services it has made most of our contacts with our friends and family impersonal. It tells me that anyway. We need to spend more time talking with someone on the phone or in person. To increase our ability to communicate we need to stop using so much of these services.
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