Thursday, February 09, 2006
communication breakdown
Does advancement in technology lead to communication breakdown? Is it that because we have an overload of information, with the 24 hours channels, numerous newspapers with numerous pages, net connections and sundry media for communication, we forget to communicate in a face to face manner? When a group of people sit down for a chat, each seems to be chatting into a mobile phone rather than to the person sitting right in front of them. When we do talk face to face, all the theories of communication viz interpersonal , face to face etc. takes away the sponteniety from the conversation.
1 comment:
It's true that with introduction of each device of communication, we are forgetting to communicate in its basic sense. With e-mail came end of snail mail and its humane touch. With mobiles, written words have lost their meaning. We communicate long distance but don't value personal contact. SMS has also laid the genesis of unconventional dialogue, which does not reflect slightest of human emotions. We literally show thumbs down to the person sitting next while pressing the keys.
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