Over the last ten years technology has made many powerful changes on communication, some good and some not as good. Here are some changes that have had a big part of the change.
1. Communiction abundance - It is less costly to have live, interactive conversations using many types of media which include Skype. The downside of this is that being so cheap as to the point of being free people do not seem to give it much thought when they communicate this way.
2. Asynchronous conversations - The advntage of using e-mail is that it gives you time to think about what you have written before you hit the send button. Writing letters has become a lost art so to speak when many people used to keep letters they received as keepsakes. Now we fire off e-mails without thinking or editing them as many people read an email and delete it as if it is nothing important.
3. Less face time - We have become more reliant on our mobile devices that we have far fewer face-to-face conversations with people. When speaking face-to-face people tend to stop to think what they are saying before they say it or at least stop and correct what they just said to clarify it.
4. Self-Expression unleashed - Because of such things as blogs and twitter along with many other social media sites practically anybody cah find an audience for what they want to say. While Twitter is a great site for getting information out during a disaster it can also become a place for haters who just want to spew their hatred.
Roberta
References:
Rosenthal, B. (2017, April 4). 4 Ways technology has changed the way we communicate. Retrieved February 13, 2020, from https://communispond.com/insights/blog/2017/04/04/652/4-ways-technology-has-changed-the-way-we-communicate/
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