Electronic Mediated Communication In 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.

Talking on the phone and texting both play a key role in this; although, it is easier to ignore someone over text than over the phone. When talking on the phone, it would create an awkward situation or silence if the other person ignored a question or statement. Relationships also need trust in order to be strong. Trust issues can result from text messages being shared with people outside of the relationship. In order for a relationship to last, trust issues should not be present, although it is possible to build a trusting relationship via

When we use technology to interact with others, we lose the ability to express the right emotions that you would express in a face-to-face conversation. When you tell someone how you feel over social media, it is entirely different than how you would tell it to them in person. Emotions that are expressed over social media, can be taken a completely different way than it would be taken if the conversation was face-to-face. For example, if you were having a conversation with a close friend, if you said something sarcastic like “You are such a weirdo.” That message could mean it is funny to you but it could be offensive to the person you are texting. In “The Limits of Friendship”, Konnikova says “We do have a social-media equivalent-sharing, liking, knowing that all your friends have looked at

We first melt face to face in church, and them we interact by first introducing our name and sharing numbers I anticipated for future interaction in other for me to reduce my uncertainty about him. At first my uncertainty were high, because I did not know much about Emmanuel so therefor I decided to seek more information. We started talking more, sometime we stay up all night talking on the phone, video calling and texting. Asking each other questions; questions such as: interest, goal, values, future and career plans. We also talked about eacher similarity and difference interest, I came to realize that the more we verbally communicated the more my uncertainty about him decrease. I was willing to self-disclosed certain discussion topic with my boyfriend; however I was not sure if he is judgmental. I started liking he and (falling in love) because we shared a lot of

Emails and text messages are an easy form of communication when it allows you to take a breather, think about your response, especially if the message sent to you is in a negative approach. There will always be those negatives and positives in any given situation, and change is never perfect, we will progress and we will fail or even lose progress in what we do. Phone calls do often feel like they have more

Texting and messaging is our primary method of communication in the modern age. It’s instant and there are no time restraints. What’s not to love? The problem with texting is that it’s incredibly difficult to showcase the best parts of yourself and convey the meaning of your words through a text alone. This is what makes texting such a minefield when it comes to romance.

My MacBook was my essential medium used throughout the day. I used it to Skype my family in England because they were missing America and our oleaginous fast food. I then spent some time on Facebook and started synchronously messaging some of my other cousins that live in LA. What’s interesting was that I was surfing the web at the same time trying to find out who was going to win between Alvarez and Golovkin. Does that make the communication asynchronous? Relatively, but I didn’t respond later than a minute. I then snapped a story trying to get the attention from my fellow snappers on who would win between these pugilists. In regards to my conversations, I only had one phone call on WhatsApp from my girlfriend and it lasted a brief 5 min.

Texting is a brilliant way to miscommunicate how you feel and misinterpret what other people mean. Texting is a great way for a quick conversation but face to face interactions are much more meaningful. Moreover, texting is a bad way to maintain relationships, because it jumbles up what you mean, and gives you false hope that you are in control of the conversation.

After reading the chapters as well as the article assigned, my personal opinion to this is that

Why was the message that was sent to me in all caps? Is that a way of showing anger? Many get emails or texts or any forms of messages through electronic communication and have no idea what the message is saying or how their tone of voice is. Many have kids who just started using communication or haven’t started at all, and are wondering what to teach their kids about communication. The best solution to this problem is to teach using face to face communication. In the old days, talking face to face was the way to go. They would walk or drive somewhere and meet up just to have a conversation. Now a day we rely on electronics. Even though sending emails is easy, talking face to face helps understand people in a more formal manner. Are these

We have two years of difference in age, I’m eighteen and he is twenty years old. This was an interesting fact in our communication. As we grow up, our afternoon talks changed to be more serious and personal. Now, instead of talking about videogames or cartoons, we conversated about girls, school, and personal problems. By this time, our relationship was on the continuation stage or bonding stage. We had no secrets between us. The trust and transparency were crucial. One day, I came from school beaten because I was bullied, so my cousin saw me like that and wanted to help me, in fact, I think he felt worse than I did. Sadly, I moved to Laredo, Texas when I started high school, meaning that we couldn’t see each other daily. I developed new relations in Martin high school, the same way he did in Mexico. It was hard for both of us to make new friends and to say goodbye to each other for some time, but we couldn’t do anything about it. Fortunately, Facebook was available, after all, we didn’t lose communication at all, but our talks were not the same as face to face, and sometimes we had little time to talk because of homework. At this point, our relation declined and started its deterioration/stagnating

1. Do you believe mediated communication allows us to express ourselves more freely since we are not face to face? Use an example from the video to support your answer.

Communication 207Contemporary Media Communications provided topics that are often overlooked, but are quite significant. Most of the time things that we see and hear can help develop our attitudes towards a group of people or a topic without determining if these ideas are factual. The course exposed the responsibility of the media, as well as how voices are excluded, and ways groups can be included. This course required the class to perform research that would influence the way we interpret what the media offers to the public. Also, the impact of new forms of communication were explored. Forms of alternative and social media, which are in their infancy and these platforms will continue to develop. So, students in COM 207 are already aware

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

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