The greater the ability to share information, the more impersonal the method becomes.
Today we have so many ways to communicate. We can keep in touch via text messages, but also have people follow our every thought on twitter and upload our experiences on Facebook for the world to see. This makes the world seem smaller.
Has this digital, intangible space improved our communication from a personal point of view?
Popular forms of communication today remove almost everything that makes us human. We share more intimate moments with our Blackberrys and iPhones than we do with actual people. A conversation via SMS is just text, black and white facts on a page… or is it? Human conversations are not straight forward black and white transactions, but an array of colourful interactions where laughter or a frown can convey more than a paragraph of explanation.
A simple “I Love You” followed by a gentle smile has so much more meaning then a picture of a Garden Gnome holding a heart posted on your Facebook page. Even if you have 100 people who “Like It”, it’s digital - not Human.
The simple phone call has been pushed aside for the instant gratification of the SMS or MMS or TWEET.
Do you need the human voice like I do?
