Over time, forms of communication have changed; from simple hand-written letters to emails and texts. All act as a form of preservation of conversations and modes of story telling. But to what extent will the forms of communication mean we lose personal connection with one another? As a social media user, I find that conversations over text do not connect me to my friends and family the way that a handwritten message or literal conversation would. Even our vocabulary has started to change due to abiding to colloquial terms of such. For instance, instead of using the phrase, "I Love You", many people have started to use the letters, "ILY". Surely this acts as a barrier to get across the true meaning of the phrase, blocking us from true communication. Whilst in person conversations are better than anything, writing your own hand written messages are much more meaningful than an abbreviated text message, especially when it comes to personal matters.
Early forms of communication were discovered as carvings into rocks, telling stories of mankind and telling us our history. This really interested me and how we can preserve stories for the future and history. What is going to be exhibited in museums as evidence of events today? A screenshot of a text message? How is this going to impact on our future? In my personal opinion, it is much better to have human interaction than lose touch with each other due to our lack of effort to call someone or even write a handwritten message.
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