Our society is highly dependent on communication, but while communication should bring people closer together, new technology provides ways of communicating without actually interacting. The result is a more impersonal form of communication. In text 1, Alexis Gorman describes how she used a new technology called Slydial to avoid the awkward conversation during a break-up. While this may not seem to be damaging to our society, it may be the start of a new tendency. As text 1 describes it: “We are constantly just missing one another – on purpose”.
This new trend may lead to a society where people are not able to deal with intimate conversations and intimacy and as a result are forced to distance themselves from each other.
The tendecy to one-way-communication also is an expression of the efficiency and fast-forward-mentality we have built up in our society. People do not want to 'waste their time' on needless communication, but want to get straight to the point.
Another reason to use technology like Slydial, could be to avoid the uncertainty related to a live conversation. James Katz describes this in text 1: “A phone conversation is like a wildfire – you don’t know where it’s going to go”. We like to control such things much better, and as humans, most of us hate unpleasent 'surprises' and coindences which cause a situation to not end up the way we have planned.
Our society is highly dependent on communication, but while communication should bring people closer together, new technology provides ways of communicating without actually interacting. The result is a more impersonal form of communication. In text 1, Alexis Gorman describes how she used a new technology called Slydial to avoid the awkward conversation during a break-up. While this may not seem to be damaging to our society, it may be the start of a new tendency. As text 1 describes it: “We are constantly just missing one another – on purpose”.
This new trend may lead to a society where people are not able to deal with intimate conversations and intimacy and as a result are forced to distance themselves from each other.
The tendecy to one-way-communication also is an expression of the efficiency and fast-forward-mentality we have built up in our society. People do not want to 'waste their time' on needless communication, but want to get straight to the point.
Another reason to use technology like Slydial, could be to avoid the uncertainty related to a live conversation. James Katz describes this in text 1: “A phone conversation is like a wildfire – you don’t know where it’s going to go”. We like to control such things much better, and as humans, most of us hate unpleasent 'surprises' and coindences which cause a situation to not end up the way we have planned.
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