Impersonal Communication

Isn’t it great the way techonology improves our lives?

There are two ways we can see this. Either techonology has given us a way to facilitate saying the difficult thing, or we can mourn over the lost art of conversation.

Have you ever sent an important message over text because you couldn’t or wouldn’t be able to do it face to face?

Why do we? Does typing the message on a screen make things so impersonal that we feel comfortable saying we normally wouldn’t ?

Well this is obviously linear, would it be a more towards the psychological model ? or the pragmatic model ?

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One Response to “Impersonal Communication”

MavericK Says:
February 7, 2009 at 10:19 am

Technology did improved our lives, and it is STILL improving them, but I’m more to the side of ‘mourning’. :P

From your clip, I see it as a degeneration of society. For heaven’s sake, the person is just right beside you!! Even in a game of Pokémon, when you try to call a character by phone in the vicinity, the game will prompt you to go ‘talk’ to it ‘face-to-face’!!

I think, people don’t like to convey difficult messages face-to-face (talking about myself here) because they are afraid of the way they are presenting it, or the lexis. And with technology, it allows us to mask the lexis of our messages, leaving the the manner of conveyance entirely to the imagination of the decoder.

but hey, I may be writing all these, but I am still helpless myself. LOL

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