Welcome to my blog.......
I have been reading and commenting on other people's blogs for a long time and I have finally struck up the courage to start my own. I have many random musings that I would love to share and get a virtual conversation going on.
The first one I would like to share is about Modern Communication. In other words Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Blogger and the stream of social media platforms constantly being developed to satisfy our need to communicate and connect with other people.
But does all this new found technology really help us to communicate better...........
Words on a page or online, not accompanied by proper
context, can be a dangerous thing. It is our intonation, body language and all
the other subtle ticks, through which we communicate, that add up to getting our
message across in the way we intended. If you are communicating solely with words on a screen, typed in harsh black font, things can often be misconstrued and an incorrect meaning ascribed to them.
I think we need to be careful when communicating in the "modern way" where the human touch is
removed. We need to think about how other people might interpret our words before we release them on the internet.
But do we really filter our communications like that? Or do we have a false sense of security and anonymity, when communicating online, that makes us say things we wouldn't dare say to someone's face?
I’m
not sure and is communicating, via social media, actually harder than communicating face-to-face or on the telephone.
I’d love to know your thoughts on this…….
