The Speech : The Communication Drought

In today’s society, digital technology became an important part of our daily lives. Advanced technologies such as smart phones, improved the connection and engagement with people around the world, and easily accessed information throughout the internet. However, many critics argued that these technology are causing negative influences among teenagers; for instances, many pointed out that texting affect the way we think and write, in which I strongly disagreed. There are no connection or comparison among texting and writing.

Teens are starting to lose verbal communication skills every day. Instead of talking or calling they are on their phones texting. In the U.S more and more people are taking advantage of this and in the article, it states “79% of teens text each other rather than talk in person” (Lenhart). This proves that more than half of the teen population is on their phones a lot. This means they’re on social media brewing up conflicts.

People spend most of their time on electronics, which causes isolation between them and the outside world. When people isolate themselves from the outside world they forget how to communicate with others and how to act around people in public. They also lose the ability to read other people’s body language, which makes it more difficult to communicate effectively. Subrahmanyam states, “cell phones and text messages have also become an important communication tool for teens” (Subrahmanyam 122). People have replaced communicating face to face with communicating through text messages.

One of the many negative points in this article is that there has been a decline in teenagers’ social abilities in the recent generations. In the article it says, “The number of teens who get together with their friends nearly every day dropped by more than forty percent from 2000 to 2015 and the decline has continued to become steeper” (Twenge). After reading this article I realized the difference in the amount of times I hung out with my friends in high school than I did in middle school. Middle school was around the time I got my first smartphone and not many people had one, so I wasn’t constantly on it and neither was anyone else. We also couldn’t even bring our phones to school if we had them; this forced us to communicate in class and during passing period, instead of having our faces glued to our phones. Since we were always talking face to face, it was easy to have many

`In the novel Speak, the author Laurie Halse Anderson, uses the main character, Melinda, to show how communication is very important when it comes to maintaining healthy relationships. One way Melinda shows this is by explaining that there are two sides to people, that are always contradicting each other. This idea of communication can also be represented through Melinda opening up in her artwork in school, which allows the reader to really see what she is feeling. One other reason this can be seen in when the attention is drawn to Melinda’s mouth and throat region describing how she struggles to speak up. To conclude, Melinda shows just how important communication is in maintaining healthy relationships in quite a few ways through the text.

No one wants to talk face-to-face with anyone anymore. It’s ‘awkward’, ‘tiring’, and just unnecessary in the eyes of today’s youth, but so what? That’s the charm of it; it’s real. The fun of conversation is to make inside jokes, and tease people, and have deep conversations, and laugh at yourself later, and learn life lessons, and gain confidence, but that’s impossible over text. Technology takes away so much of life's joys and eccentricity, and makes life altogether less valuable and memorable for the newest generations. Actual communication provides so much texts can’t, and never will.

, Chandra Johnson claims more young people are connected than ever before through media, the value of the communication that they take part in is leading to an inability to communicate successfully. Johnson argues that youth need face-to-face social communications, and that technology cannot replace traditional public situations. She states that youths today are not creating the empathetic ties that they should be, damaging their relationships. Per this article, young people need to balance technology with essential face-to-face

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In “No Need to Call”, Sherry Turkle observes the text messages, instant messages and emails and looks closely at the benefits and the effects of them. In addition, she observes the digital media, overwhelmed across the generations and less wanting to hear voices. However, she starts by making a point which is that phone calls have been replaced by text messages, instant messages and emails. She gives examples to show how people benefit from text messages and instant messages. Her first example is Elaine who is seventeen-year-old. Elaine is a shy person. She uses text messages and instant messages instead of phone calls. She said that “shy people can write freely on the screens”(373). In addition, she shows that texting

Social Media is taking the life out of our youth’s every day. More and more of our youths is turning into big couch potatoes because they are always on an electronic device. It seems like everything that have a colorful touch screen they are on it. What happen to the good old days when you can go outside and enjoy nature? What happen when you can easily communicate to them without texting them or spelling words right. We all are capable of communicating with words; we don’t need emoji’s.

In order for future generations and today’s youth to be better communicators, it’s important that focus is returned to more face to face communications instead of social media and texts. If the youth continue to use social media as a means to communication future generations will be less educated and will not be prepared to enter the working world.

In the article, “Text-talk teens lack the right words for work - Education Youngsters' abbreviated forms of communication” by Sian Griffiths and Chris Gourlay is about young children are avoiding real vocabulary instead they are using abbreviated words to communicate. Children from age 9 to 11 own a cell phone. In the article, “Post-modern ‘languagers’: the effects of texting by university students on three South African languages” by Charlyn Dyers and Gaironesa Davids talks about number of students under the age of 18 own cell phone in South Africa and they are investigation how the digital communication altering the way we speak, social interaction, and identities. In the article,” In-Person Contact Begets Calling and Texting: Interpersonal Motives for Cell Phone Use, Face-to-Face Interaction, and Loneliness” by Borae Jin, and Namkee Park is about when teenagers and have face to face communication their mind is somewhere else. They are texting and using their phone while talking to someone and not maintaining eye

The article presents the problem with communication with lots of research that has been done in past years. The research data presented was mostly accurate throughout the essay. Another article written by Angle, Moscaritolo state that, “teens sends and receive 60 texts message a day, up from 50 in 2009…” so as the years go by there has been an increase in the use of smartphones. We can be in a family meeting, but more often will find out that teens prefer to “talk” to you by text than having face-to-face

Communication can be conveyed in a plethora of different ways, whether it is a debatable topic between individuals a group of individuals, a problem or issue discussed in a relationship, or every day conversation between friends. Regardless of the situation, the information must be communicated, and perceived, accurately in order for the discussion to yield the intended result. According to “What is Communication?” (2013), “the discipline of communication focuses on how people use messages to generate meanings within and across various contexts, cultures, channels, and media” (para 1). Information can be transferred by using numerous different communication methods such as verbal communication, written

Among cell phone calls, texting and social media sites, teens today have no problem interacting with each other virtually rather than interacting with each other on a personal setting. One article states,“Given that our brains are