Computer Mediated Communication And The Development Of Interpersonal Relationships

With the advent of computers and related technologies of communication, the nature of communication has changed drastically. There are some positive highlights to this change as well as negative highlights to this change based on my experience. In my younger years, the only form of communication was one on one communication or writing through snail mail. However, this is not the case today. Today, I make use of emails, social media, and other chatting forums to communicate both professionally and personally to family, friends, and relatives. I have found this change to have its advantages as well as disadvantages. In this paper, I will discuss how computer-mediated communication has aided my communication as well as how it compares to the type of communication that was available during my younger years. In addition, I will give a comparison between computer-mediated communication and person-to-person communication.

15). This research speaks volumes to the overall effect that the spread of technology has on our addiction to social media. It shows that we now value our time and interactions that happen over the Internet more than we value the true face-to-face interactions that real relationships actually depend on. One study performed on a university campus in Turkey used a questionnaire to evaluate different factors that could have significantly positive or negative effects on a relationship. This study performed by Egeci and Gencoz found that “…those with lower communications problems…were more likely to experience relationship satisfaction” (388). The type of communication that is proven to help grow relationships occurs most effectively face-to-face, where people can read each other’s emotions in their facial expressions and non-verbal

Now the world of development is faster and faster, a lot of mobile applications are make the people distance more and more closer. In the “I Had a Nice Time With You Tonight” article. JENNA WORTHAMT She has 3,000 miles away from her boyfriend, and they often use smartphone applications to get closer and chat with each other. She pointed out that the convenience of these applications can make people become more closer, and this is not like the phone or text formal. In the new app “you and me”, the entrepreneur is committed to allowing more couples to use the software for one-on-one meetings. Although this software is not a real alternative, but does not affect the actual time together in the real world. In Ms. Friedman's blog, she noted that 74% of couples believe that the Internet had a positive impact on their relationship. In my view, although the virtual world spent most of the time, but it also brings a lot of positive impacts.

“Can you remember the last time you were in a public space in America and didn’t notice that half the people around you were bent over a digital screen, thumbing a connection to somewhere else?” (Fredrickson, 2013, pg. 1). In a world today where sending a text message containing the message “I luv you,” is equally powerful to that statement said in person to your significant other. Today’s generation is surrounded by the constant need to have technology and mainly cell phones at your fingertips. Gone are the days when people would talk to one another whilst standing in line, now it is all about having and using your cell phone to pass the time. All of this takes bondage on having an interpersonal relationship with each other and conversing

The article Electronic Intimacy by Christine Rosen talks about the relationships people have with the online world and how it affects relationships because everything is just so fast. The purpose this article was written is to give her audience which is people who use social media to experience an actual in person relationship because the only relationship we know today lies in a direct message. Rosen poses a question to her audience that has us all thinking and also is her thesis. The question says “But does the way we communicate with each other alter that experience significantly?” (Paragraph 5). But it makes sense because in today’s world there is no such thing as personal relationships which is why Rosen states that “We are living in an

In an article written for the New York Times by Jenna Wortham called “I Had a Nice Time with You Tonight. On the App.”, Wortham discusses the pros of using social media in developing relationships. She talks of her personal accounts with dating apps to keep up with her long-distance relationship with her boyfriend and how she finds that communicating with him through video chat is pretty useful for maintaining her relationship. Wortham believes that communication through social media platforms like G-Chat (Google Chat), Skype, Facetime, etc., makes conversation feels more casual and that she feels a closer bond with the people she talks to “physically, even though it’s through a screen” (394). The audience she could be appealing to is anyone

She uses different apps to communicate with her long-distance boyfriend (393). Wortham says “ These interactions help us feel physically close, even if they happen through a screen.” (394). Conversations feel more casual to her then normal conversations. She says “... it feels more like the kind of casual conversation you might have over a meal or while watching television together.” (394). She quotes Turkle in her essay, “ Turkle.. Said technology saturated type could ‘forget what a face-to-face conversation can do’” (396). Wortham disagrees, she explains, “ If anything, the pervasiveness of technology in my life has heightened my desire for actual one-on-one meetings.”

People now prefer to text one another than to call or meet. The reason for this is that technology allows us to fulfill our desire for communication with one another much faster, easier and with fewer consequences. This is why, with the further advancement of technology, connections with inanimate objects that acquired human traits are becoming more popular. This can be seen in Turkle’s essay when she first introduced ELIZA, the program that engages in dialogue. she says “ People used the program as a projective screen on which to express themselves. Yes, I thought, they engaged in a personal conversation with ELIZA, but in a spirit of ‘as if’” (458). It is easier for people to have conversations that they are able to control and achieve desired outcomes without dealing with real human emotions that can be daunting. People can experience the little moments of “positivity resonance” through artificial intelligence much easier, faster and at their

With the digital revolution, people’s relationships are changing. Today, people are no longer required to leave their house to form a new relationship with someone else. “Texting and Writing” by Michaela Cullington describes the impact that text messaging has on the communication skills of people today. Alexis Madrigal in his article “Take the Data Out of Dating” portrays the methods of online date matching. With modern technology and the use of online matching, relationships no longer require face-to-face communication, lack personal emotions, and create a convenient relationship environment.

In such that situation, messaging applications may be preferred because it allows you to plan out and revise messages; whereas for a face-to-face often demands an immediate response in which without a suitable answer, may lead to awkwardness.Ann Friedman, an audience interviewed for this article states, "Tech entrepreneurs, long obsessed with making apps to help you find a relationship, have now begun trying to solve the problem staying happy in one,"(Wortham 394).Another person in this article also says, ''We've given ourselves something so gratifying that we can forget other ways we can communicate."(Wortham 395).These two interviewers have shown us the importance that social media and technology bring in a new way of communication, but also affect our ability to interact outside of

Many of my girl friends and I talk these days about how dating just seems to be going more and more downhill. With people focusing on money and fun more than actual meaning, traditional dating is being forgotten and overridden. People actually think they can send you a Snapchat and that is okay communication. One of my friends (who I will keep anonymous) recently pointed out how with Snapchat and other similar social media these days, we fear and second guess ourselves by thinking, “Well, he opened my Snapchat but he didn’t respond to my text” kind of thoughts. How is this kind of thinking productive and benefitting relationships at all? Before social media, the only way to reach people was by taking the time to call them.

Email has modified the mode of communications much faster and easier for many people. Now we can type messages more speedily than penned down by hand, delivered with the speedy internet connection, and stored and retrieved back from any computer having access to the server.

How does electronic communication affect our social behavior as a whole and our psychological development? Communication is an important part of life. We all do it in a daily basis whether it’s face-to-face or through electronics. Communicating through the internet helps us as it decreases a bit in the time that it would usually take for us to keep in touch with our loved ones. However, it also takes away from the face-to-face interaction we would have with them. One of the most popular ways that people communicate electronically is through text messaging. Just like all the other diverse ways that allows us to communicate electronically such as email, instant messaging, social media etc., text messaging affects us both positively and negatively. Actually we are affected both positively and negatively with just the ability to communicate and interact with others electronically. Electronic Communication tends to affects us socially and psychologically; Socially: in a way that it allows us to keep in touch with our loved ones, especially those who live far from us, however it distracts some of us from our priorities; Psychologically: one can be affected in a

In our society today a person can often look around a room of people and see nothing but the top of their heads, along with their eyes staring down at lit up screen filled with tremendous possibilities. One thing you doubtfully will view is everyone surrounding talking to each other making kinship with in their proximity. Instead, making connections through their phones. In the article written by Nancy Jo Sales “Tinder and the Dawn of the“Dating Apocalypse””, Sales speaks of the dating culture of the current twenty-first century and her views on how online dating has affected thus creating a sort of “Dating Apocalypse”. In the culture of intimacy may it be consciously or subconsciously people are seeking love and security in their lives through hookups and technological dating cites such as Tinder.

Technology is great for sending quick messages but shouldn’t be a place where we are always communicating. In order to have more authentic relationships we shouldn’t use technology for creating relationships because you truly can’t learn about one another if you’re not communicating in real life as well. What we put out on social media is often times fabricated or enhanced to depict a life that we aspire. We can edit text or pictures to our discretion and even delete images or texts, which we can’t do in real life, which is why we tend to prefer texting and social media because we have