Steel Valley Football;1251265 wrote:I think you have mistakenly labeled the ADDITION of communication means as REPLACEMENT of the existing communication means.

I visit and call from my house, my mom, who lives 2.5 hrs away, the same amount as I did 15 years ago. However, additionally, I text her and video chat. I also can call her when I'm AWAY from home now because I have a mobile phone, where as before I did not.

The same is true of kids today. They still see their friends at school and interact the same as they did twenty years ago. They still hang out after school and at social events; movies, football games, etc. However, in ADDITION to that, they call, text and facebook/internet chat during that time and in the later hours. Twenty years ago, that extra communication in the later hours did not exist; other than via telephone.

Con_Alma;1251273 wrote:There are numerous articles written addressing the impact of the volume of communications that has emerged which due to it's convenience and simplicity has take the place of a more engaging and personal direct communications. It is that that I was referring to.

When face to face communications exists,especially in our youth, the impact is most prevalent.

Steel Valley Football;1251288 wrote:Again, it's additional communication. There's no proof it has replaced face to face contact. I'd wager $100 those articles were written by people born before 1960 with old-fashioned views similar to yours and Belly's.

They said the same thing when the telephone was invented. The people who gathered on the courthouse lawn or at the market to get their news surely declared the telephone was the devil.

Con_Alma;1251294 wrote:It's impacting the face to face communication that does take place. It also can reduce the amount and the desire to communicate verbally and face to face. Social netwroking is a less formal form of communications and the frequency of it tends to lessen the formal nature of face to face and verbal communications.

The telephone did also have an impact on the way we communicate today.

Con_Alma;1251294 wrote:It's impacting the face to face communication that does take place. It also can reduce the amount and the desire to communicate verbally and face to face. Social netwroking is a less formal form of communications and the frequency of it tends to lessen the formal nature of face to face and verbal communications.

The telephone did also have an impact on the way we communicate today.

Con_Alma;1251309 wrote:I think it's negative? Hmmmm. O.K. Lol.

It's different. It's convenience and frequency influences the reverent nature of past communication.

I agree that impacted does indeed mean change.

Con_Alma;1251338 wrote:Communications will always be shifting and changing...sometimes due to technology... sometimes due to culture. That doesn't mean that it's necessarily negative nor positive. Sometimes it can be both.

The inverse can also occur. What I mean by that is that the manner in which we communicate can either be a positive or negative influence on culture. The two are interdependent on each other.

Cher;1251327 wrote:IM ALWAYS SENDIN PIX OF MY VAG TO BOYS

Steel Valley Football;1251478 wrote:Now you're going in circles. You're post above suggested a negative connotation about our youth and changing communication methods. No more circles going forward, please.

gut;1250840 wrote:The absolute worst is seeing a couple at a restaurant both looking at their phone.

Interesting that they call it "social networking" when it's rather anti-social (or at least, impersonal) interaction.

thavoice;1252049 wrote:Heard on the radio yesterday that some restuarant in LA is giving a 5% discount off if you turn in your cell phone when you get there.

THE4RINGZ;1250857 wrote:5 posts into this thread and no one has mentioned that they were texting thavoice's wife while she was at the party? You people are slipping.

Pick6;1251188 wrote:I'm reading this from my phone.


Kind of ironic that y'all are bitching about "heads being into electronic devices" and social networking and you are doing it right now. Yes I consider posting on forums to be a form of social networking.

Steel Valley Football;1251265 wrote:I think you have mistakenly labeled the ADDITION of communication means as REPLACEMENT of the existing communication means.

I visit and call from my house, my mom, who lives 2.5 hrs away, the same amount as I did 15 years ago. However, additionally, I text her and video chat. I also can call her when I'm AWAY from home now because I have a mobile phone, where as before I did not.

The same is true of kids today. They still see their friends at school and interact the same as they did twenty years ago. They still hang out after school and at social events; movies, football games, etc. However, in ADDITION to that, they call, text and facebook/internet chat during that time and in the later hours. Twenty years ago, that extra communication in the later hours did not exist; other than via telephone.

thavoice;1252057 wrote:I went through a 10 week period where I had no ability to communicate by phone or email and it was all writing, and those letters from me, and to me, were definantly more in dept then the nonchelant texting messages that we see all the FN time now.

This is what is happening nowadays. A person is with group A of friends, family, etc. He/she is then texting group B, C and D. WHen that person is with group B then they are texting the other groups.

It is disrespectful when you see people with their family, or a group of friends, and they are more busy texting other groups of people instead of talking, interacting with those they are with.
The interpersonal face-to-face communication skills suck anymore because people are too reliant on texting.


It all started with the answering machine! Remember the day when you would hope to get the machine instead of talking to someone? THen it went the way of voicemail, email and now its instant with texting/facebooking.

thavoice;1252053 wrote:Eh. Not really. I am not posting on the OC while I am at home with the family, or around friends or family, or anything like that. I believe there is a diff in doing these type of things when you are with a group of people and ignoring them compared to when the person is not around anyone.

Steel Valley Football;1252082 wrote:Eh. Yes, it is. Message boards are a form of social media/networking. What YOU do personally on them is irrelevant.

thavoice;1252085 wrote:Your example of using the cell phone to keep in contact with your mother, and doing so more often then you had before cell phones, is a bit different then what I am talking about in this thred.

I know you are always on my nutz to disagree with everything I say, but you dont always have to automatically disagree because I am a pathetic person.


The point of this thread isnt about keeping in touch with people like you mentioned, it is how people nowadays are more likely to just ignore the people they are in the presence of to communicate with others. The new fangled ways of communication has def helped keep in touch with people you dont see often.

The point of it, and you no doubt have seen it, is when you together with others and/or se a group of people and they are doing more playing on their phones texting, FB and such then communicating with those they are around at that point

thavoice;1252090 wrote:Uh. Yeah. I never said they werent.

The difference, and see if you can get this in your head, is when a person is doing these things.

A. WHen you are with a group of people, friends, family, etc .
B. WHen you are not around anyone.

In the first example you are ignoring those who you are in the physical presence of, and in the second one you are not.

YOu really cannot be that dumb can you?