Do you know how we first started our form of communications on Earth and how it revolves till to date?
It was from the olden days, where people are not illiterate, whom produced the first form of communication on earth. Like how we understand:
Fire is being made to form a communication between the sender and the receiver through the smoke indication. Symbols are being crafted on stones and walls in ancient times.
But how do we derive to the kind of communications we have to date?
As the years passed, people started to learn the ways of writing, the style of communicating properly and how to convey a message.
In today’s society, our communications have increased tremendously with the different styles of communication, from our body languages to the communications in the cyber world. Our first communication before entering into this world is when we were a foetus in our mothers’ uteruses. It is when we react to our parents through kicking or punching inside our mothers’ wombs. When we were born, crying is the only method in helping us to convey our messages and emotions to our parents. Even as a child, we have our own ways of communication and seek for attention when we needed it.
It is when we start to learn the ways of conveying our messages to the society where we have to change our style of communication with the flow of the changing state of society, be it at work, in school or even in the public. For example, when we were at work, we wouldn’t possibly talk to our boss in an informal way as compared to talking to our best friends. It is the status and the place of interaction that changes our style of communication at different point of time. When we communicate at certain point, our body language also informs one our thoughts and how we react to the situation. In public places when we were alone, we tend to not caring our surroundings and keep to ourselves. For instance, teenagers do put on their headphones and cut off all noises beyond them when they are alone outside or in public transports. This is a kind of communication we tend to portray in today’s society.
To me, I feel that communications had always played a huge part to our life. Through the ways of communication, it really helps us to see one better, and understand them deeper; however, I also believe that communications can be a form of a lie, where people would use it to hide their real emotions. Different styles of communications could portray who we are and how we handle the different situations in this society. Without communication, it is hard for us to understand people, in the form of their thoughts and emotions.
I feel that communications has taken a leap and dip at the same time.
ReplyDeleteFrom the ancient days of using fire, lanterns and pigeons to communicate with one another to the modern day form of instantaneous communication. Instantaneous communication has definitely sped things up, hence increasing efficiency and innovation at a breakneck pace.
On the other hand, communication using technology has hindered the use of real life communication. I have observed several meetings that have been disrupted by a friend constantly glued to his/her phone, or worse, a whole group of friends sipping coffee together and looking at their phones. There have been countless of occasions where I have seen parents use the iPad or iPhone to keep their young children quiet or distracted at a dinner table. In the time when Pluto was still a planet, kids were taught to listen to the table's conversation or just learn to be quiet. I think exposing kids to how adults interact is extremely important in the development of the child. I still remember chatting and sometimes debating with friends of my parents during dinner when I was 10. Thinking back, that activity has taught me a lot about how to interact with others.
I fear that in a few generations time, our ability to interact in real person with others will greatly inhibited if we continue to let devices distract our day to day real life interactions with others.
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