The Effects Of Cognitive Distance On Our Lives

Over the years, technology has created new forms of communication, such as text messaging, emailing, blogging, or using social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Skype, and many more. People commonly use these modes of communication rather than the traditional pen and paper or face-to-face conversations because it is easier and convenient for them to communicate with everyone, including family members and friends living on the mainland or in a different country. I should know because my family has been using Facebook and Skype for several years now to communicate with our extended family back home in the Philippines who we have not seen since our last trip there in 1999. Even though we are miles and miles apart from each other, we do not need to send letters anymore or buy a phone card every single

Nowadays, the communications with others are different from the traditional ways and normal rules. People take advantage of new technology to communicate instead of face to face. Although the email and text message make people easy to communicate, the society

Instant gratification has become the social norm in this generation but is diminishing the quality of communication. Cell phones have changed massively in the past few years, making communication weaken each time cell phones are updated. At first, cell phones were just used for calling. Calling was the only operation that they were capable of and most of the time calling was not even convenient on a cell phone. Although the concept of texting has been out for decades, actual texting became available to all society in 1994 (Turrettini). Texting instantly

discusses how communication has grown and developed into new ways to interact with each other. Social media, blogs, and mobile phones are a few of the ways that we can connect and be in contact with each other. Information that may have taken days to reach an out of state friend through a letter just a few decades ago can now be sent and received in a matter of minutes through email or text messaging.

Throughout the years people have been given the privilege of interpersonal communication in many forms, such as letters, emails, texts, and social media. Letters were one of the very first mediums people used to communicate, and as the years went by technology improved, and emails were created. Emails served as a faster alternative for people in a business to contact someone else. Following that was the idea of text messaging, not only was it time efficient but also easier. That wasn’t the only thing connecting people all around the world though. Social media wasn’t the most popular to begin with, but as time went by, and it became more personal, people began to take a very big interest in it. Letters, emails, texts, and social media play

Today people communicate through text and email and think nothing about it because they can get a reply right away. Back in the 1800’s people had to wait for up to, months to get a reply from someone. “The mail was delivered by either stagecoach or by boat and it would take up to 21 days to get a letter to someone” (Pony Express). In the 1860’s a group of men invented a faster mail delivery service called the Pony Express. The Pony express transformed the ingenuity of America by the delivery of a faster mail service and the legend of the men crossing through dangerous territory.

The receiver would get it three days later and their response time would be the same. In comparison, technology has come an extremely long ways, and it has many benefits for nurses, doctors, and even teachers. For example, the option to take an online class is convenient for the general public who work full time, and have a full time family to care for is an enormous detriment. Furthermore, technology has scores of benefits, which astray society’s cognizant of its negative effects on humanity. In addition to communication being affected, think about the rise in bullying, exclusively “cyber bullying;” the unlimited access to substantially any information you can think of; and of course the absence of face-to-face communication. Many young girls are beating themselves up about being too fat or too skinny, not having the right color of hair, or the right clothes. To be friends with someone and to honestly get a grasp on their true character cannot be done without face-to-face verbal

Today, we are living in a world that places a demand for use to communicate.

to send a message instantly anywhere around the globe. The effects this has had on information

There is a transformation happening today that is completely changing the way that we do things. The ways that we are communicating are shifting from face to face interactions to short, interactive messages. Technology seems to be making it easier to stay connected, but it is restricting our interactions with others and leading to isolation.

cellular phones, and instant messages. People are now able to keep in constant connection with

Within our world communication through each other is better now than it was 45 years ago, that means to communicate with each other is now easier and better not like before now we can give messages and save each other easy, such as Kfc Company will be able to keep up-to-date on what happens in their factories will be aware of anything new in a matter of seconds. KFC has factories along the road in Oman, any things happened in Kfc Company it will be easier to reach any messages for their employees without waiting to know what happen so they will be able to come up with solutions if they have any

people. People rely profoundly on the ease of text messages, emails and social media. The use of

Often times we are comparing what we do now with what has been done almost 50 years ago. When we reply to a text to someone it is just a new form of communication, we are not neglecting the people in front of us but just adding new ones to our lives. It’s the same concept that has continued since our nation was founded, once something is introduced to society as a better innovation of what we currently have, such as the cellphone, we automatically view it as a negative impacted until it slowly gains a positive feedback. When the cellphone was brought to the public in 1973 by Motorola there was a backlash because of the fact that “it was not the norm” but soon people began to use it and now it is a regular part of daily living and lifestyle that we see today. But also depends on the social aspects on a personal level as described by John Bargh and Katelyn McKenna’s journal Internet and Social Life, “According to this perspective, the special qualities of Internet social interaction do have an impact on the interaction and its outcomes, but this effect can be quite different depending on the social context” (Bargh 577).

“TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education, in the elder, a part of experience.” (Francis Bacon). People travel for different reasons; they travel for fun, adventure, learning, worshipping, etc. People from different age groups have different motive behind traveling. Children travel to have fun or learn something new. Whereas adults travel to experience different things. Either ways everyone gets to learn something or the other, but the difference is in childhood we look at things from a different perspective we find something to learn from it, but when we are adults we start marking things and