We “build worlds” through communication by interpreting what
we see and hear and identifying what is culturally significant to us. Our perception of the world comes more from
what is communicated to us versus what we actually experience. For example, many people could perceive the
world as violent based on what they see on the evening news. Even though what they see is not their
individual experience, they take it as accurate information to base their
opinion on based on the fact that most everyone is viewing the same news
stories in one fashion or another. One
form of communication that is popular in our culture today is texting. Face to face or phone conversations are
becoming a thing of the past and more and more people rely on texting to
communicate with their spouse, children, friends or loved ones. This is a new concept to our elders such as
our grandparents and for some of us even our parents as texting was not around
approximately 15 plus years ago. I think
texting takes away from our success as a society for several reasons. I believe that it takes away personal face to
face conversation as well as a simple text message can be interpreted different
ways. I believe texting has made us an
impersonal society where we lack the interaction we once had.
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