Communication via face to face or online each has its own relative advantages and disadvantages.
Consider the fact that with online communication one can delay their response and reflect before making a response. This offers the extra opportunity to THINK before speaking or writing. While face to face is easy for some people, a vast majority experience great difficulty. This is further exacerbated when the communication is with a large audience.
Online communication allows us to have a much further reach than we would ordinarily have using face to face methods.
What online communication does not always offer is being able to determine mood or tone based on intonation, pitch, body language and visual cues. It also does not allow us to remove the element of trust or suspicion (especially in cases where you will have to take the word of a person whom you cannot see). Face to face communication supports social activities - eating together, giving a pat on the shoulder for a job well done and several informal interactions that would otherwise be a challenge to perform in an online community with mere words.
Consider the fact that with online communication one can delay their response and reflect before making a response. This offers the extra opportunity to THINK before speaking or writing. While face to face is easy for some people, a vast majority experience great difficulty. This is further exacerbated when the communication is with a large audience.
Online communication allows us to have a much further reach than we would ordinarily have using face to face methods.
What online communication does not always offer is being able to determine mood or tone based on intonation, pitch, body language and visual cues. It also does not allow us to remove the element of trust or suspicion (especially in cases where you will have to take the word of a person whom you cannot see). Face to face communication supports social activities - eating together, giving a pat on the shoulder for a job well done and several informal interactions that would otherwise be a challenge to perform in an online community with mere words.
1 comment:
I didn't think of the last point you made. It's quite true that the simple pleasure of sharing a meal, or a pat on the shoulder take our communication to a deeper level without having to work too hard as with online (like i do with my two finger typing skills)
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