The Importance Of Communication

We have all heard that communication is the key to any good relationship. The article by David Isaacs (2014), states that “social media is likely to facilitate communication not impair it”, which is one of the main reasons for social networks and to communicate with family and friends all around the world instantly with effortless accessibility all thanks to the internet. David Isaacs (2014)

First, in my personal life I’ve witness what Turkle has stated every time I go on social media i see like of communication on dates, party, and even family dinners. Using social media you can create somebody that everyone like and that would cause you to be afraid to call someone because you might expose yourself. In the article Sherry believe “At the screen, you have a chance to write yourself into the person you want to be …”and “When you cultivate this sensibility, a telephone call can seem fearsome because it reveals too much”. This quote shows that society are too comfortable with virtual messaging that they get scared of talking on the phone because there's room for mistake. Second example that shows that virtual messages aren't improving our skills in communication is the 17 year old Audrey who describe to us that after every practice she would get into the van that her mother was driving and just sit there with no interactions, and the fact that they went days without talking to each other.

When two people decide to get married and spend the rest of their lives together, they don’t plan on their past individual experiences getting in the way of their happiness as a couple. Research has shown that when the couple finds themselves in an unhappy marital relationship, they find themselves contemplating divorce because they lack the proper tools for effective communication (Buehlman, Gottman, & Katz, 1992). Effective communication learned in the early years of marriage will build a stable, healthy, and active union, which involves keeping alive feelings that brought the couple together in the first place (Honeycutt, 1999). Studies conducted on this topic (Driver & Gottman, 2004) determined that effective communication and interaction play a part in how couples detour from the dirt road of divorce and get back on the highway of happily ever after.

Believe it or not, being grammatically correct is an extremely important thing to have in life. Some employers do not hire people who have bad grammar in interviews for the reason that it can show that a person is unprofessional and disrespectful. In The Washington Post article, Jeffrey Selingo claims that jobs these days specifically require skills such as writing and communication because of the lack in knowledge in these subjects from recent college graduates. (Selingo) In order to be successful in life, a person needs to know how to communicate professionally and correctly.

These drawbacks include too many people being reliant to talking online rather than in person and not verbally communicating with friends even though they are in the same room. Jasmine Fowlkes shows the reality in how social media is affecting our new generation through her article, “Viewpoint: Why Social Media is Destroying our Social Skills.” After discussing the results conducted by several researchers, Fowlkes states,“As more generations are born into the social age, social media will continue to be the favored communication form among young people. However, this shift may begin to affect their ability to properly communicate in person with peers.” Many start to rely on applications on our devices to talk to people, but this results in less verbal communication. In addition, Kelly-Fay’s Talktrack research study showed that conversations held in person are much more impactful than on social media. Rather than making social media a huge part of your life, Fowlkes wishes that people would look up from their phones and engage more with others since that could change their lives.

Let’s talk” by Sherry Turkle, she talks about how we are losing the ability to communicate well with people and have a good conversation rather we focus more on our phone, it talks about how technology has taken over the world and how people both parents and the kids are getting addicted to their phone and loose so many things like friendship, family, love and most especially the communication skills you have with your friends or family. Turkle says “What has happened to face – face conversation in a world where son many people say they would rather text than talk” (Turkle ), social media have become a big part of our lives where we tend to forget that having a face – face conversation is better that texting or even video chatting, let’s take for example, you have a problem with someone and your trying to sort out things with the person, you can’t do that by texting, a face – face conversion will be the best for such so as to see and know the person’s true emotion also know if they are really sincere or not. When we spend all our time on social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, we are losing the face – face communication, where you can really see people’s emotion and determine if they are sad, happy or angry. Social media causes more harm than good, especially in terms of our communication skill because we tend to lose

Today, socialization that involves real interaction is very rare because people have been reduced to interaction on social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Though there is nothing expressly wrong with technological communication, but over-relying on it can be a problem when it is seen as a substitute for face-to-face interaction. It takes away real life activities and can cause a breakdown in relationships. Constantly connecting through mobile devices is prone to disconnecting people from those physically around us.

In a study done by Przybylski and Weinstein “[we] found evidence that [technological] devices have negative effects on closeness, connection, and conversation quality [with another person]” (Przybylski and Weinstein). By using online communities to gain knowledge people are limiting their face-to-face interaction resulting in a decrease in the effectiveness of common social skills, such as conversation quality. There is no need to have face-to-face interaction when technology can simply do it quicker. According to Kaci Stephens, “digital forms of communication […] tend to lead people to act impersonal in person.” This impersonality causes people to be friendlier over text than in person creating awkward real life social interaction among people. By interacting with people over text or email, it is easier to say things that would not typically be said in person. Online forms of communication lead to a lack of effective communication skills amongst others when talking

My research on Social Media and the effect it has on interpersonal or impersonal communication goes from 2002 when personal communication started becoming popular, to 2015 with an article by Emily Drago, Strategic Communications Elon University (The Effect of Technology on Face-to-Face Communication).

“Social ties that we once would have abandoned as we left highschool, changed jobs and moved from one neighborhood to another now persist online” (Hampton 7). This quote by Keith N. Hampton, a doctor that holds the Professorship in Communication and Public Policy at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information, emphasizes that as technology keeps on advancing and improving, we are now all connected through social media and would help us keep relationships with one another in different places. One may believe that communicating through technology is distracting our real-world relationships; however people tend to have stronger and longer relationships and are more aware of the world around them. Technology is positively impacting people’s ability to maintain and develop relationships.

Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Instagram, and Flicker was invented to keep us in touch and keep us closer to our family and friends. But according to How Facebook ruins Friendships “we took our friendship online” (Bernstein). First we began communicating more by email than by phone and then switched to instant messaging or texting. By joining social Medias online

It takes away the intimate aspect of what a conversation is. Furthermore, when choosing to converse with each other through social media, there is a barrier. Though, social media provides an instantaneous connection to others around the world, there is an inability to create intimate relationships out of fear. Digital communication allows escapism and the possibility to edit the perceptions others may have. In his 2015 article on the effects of social media amongst adolescences, Nicholas Dantuona notes that “Social media… creates an image for people based off their profiles, posts and pictures.” Thus, providing a false image of one’s self. This later translates to in-person conversation, the inability to express one’s idea without fear of backlash and the incapability to maintain a meaningful discussion. Additionally, to avoid this fear, there is an avoidance of in-person conversation altogether and instead is substituted with a text message. Social media has created an environment where everyone is alone

The label, “Social Media”, is due to its ability to encourage people to be more social and communicative through the internet. Yet, it is now known that the name might not live up to its expectation. With less face-to-face interaction, relationships and communication skills are being sacrificed. Although one may have one thousand

Technology lets use communicate instantly no matter how apart we are from community, or where you from. Telephones and the internet are a huge example of this. Even helps translate languages so people can understand what others are saying even if they don’t speak the same language. They are different kind of software’s, like automatic translation and even google translator works. People usually use social skills in different kinds of media like in phone, texting, and calling, even in internet like Facebook, twitter, and emails. But this helps use by finding friend you haven’t talked to for years and helps to keep in touch with love one and family. In away technology helps use communicate with everyone in the world. It helps use by talking to professional, teacher, and even coaches through media. Well it helps use communicate and it’s the best way to communicate because in second you could send a massages. When you’re busy and you don’t have the time to see someone or you moved to the other side of the world it’s the best way to communicate. Like for example in my own experience, I could communicate with my grandma via FaceTime or skype, when I did have the time to go visit her in the hospital. That was my way to communicate with my grandma. But one of the most popular things I have herd and seen these days is how social media and technology are affecting people and their social skills. We are often communicating with people

Social sites are a beneficial way to communicate, however, it affects a person’s ability to communicate face to face with others. Many people spend much of their leisure time online rather than connecting with the offline world. In a specific article, a participant spends several hours each day updating her profile instead of talking face to face with others (Livingstone 399). Being online more than offline, decreases people’s abilities to interact with others who are disconnected. Furthermore, by communicating online also contributes to misrepresentation, which leads to misreading a text, leading to mixed emotions of a person who wrote the message. Therefore, social networking reduces an emotional aspect between people as it is hard to tell what a person is feeling through text. In addition, people lack confidence talking to an individual physically rather than virtually. In an