Is is too hard to communicate face-to-face?

At the start of the Week 3 Learning Path, we were given a question which related to whether we thought technology has made us anti-social people. I clicked TRUE as my answer, as I believe that in today’s society we would rather send instant messages and communicate on social media than relate face-to-face. In Nicole’s Blog, she stated that the use of technologies in this era are making us anti-social. This was a good read, as I completely agreed. Then I started thinking…..

Haven’t we always had some form of communication which isn’t face-to-face? Such as, writing letters and speaking over the phone. Why has society only now thought this is damaging to genuine human connection? Wouldn’t these means of communicating still be classed as anti-social behaviour? I believe that it is inevitable to stop developing, we have just created new ways to easily communicate with the world around us.

Ana Nogales article Facebook vs. Face-to-Face raised an interesting point about the detrimental effects of communicating online. Aside from safety, which has already been mentioned throughout my blogs, lack of emotion and expression comes into play. Although it is quick and easy to send a message, often things can be miscommunicated. But hasn’t this always been the way?