It's not what you say.....

So this is my first ever blog. I knew nothing about blogs other than reading other people's blogs. I was never the type of person to take time out of my busy schedule to write, especially if I wasn't going to get a grade for it!

However, I mine as well give it a shot, I may actually like blogging and continue to blog well after I have finished this class. As I was coming up with an idea of what to write about in my first blog and how I can relate it to communications, my  grandmother text'd me; and than I knew exactly what to write about. Technology has completely changed the way in which we communicate with one another today. Face to face communication is becoming obsolete, even oral communication is slowly diminishing. With text messaging, e-mail, and instant messaging people are using these ways to communicate rather than talking in person. I know I am guilty of having conversations via text messaging and I think it is pretty funny that my almost 80 year mother now text messages all the time, but I feel that technology has taken over our communication. Let me bring up another issue with text messaging. After a few texts back and forth with my grandmother, she got mad at me because of a what I thought was an innocent text message, she apparently took the wrong way. I asked her what I said that was wrong and she said it wasn't what I said but how I said it; meaning the tone of my text. I was speechless. How can a text have a tone! I did not respond and just sat there thinking how if I just picked up the phone rather than text messaging, we could have avoided this little argument! Why do we today avoid talking in person and resort to using technology to communicate ? I understand using technology to communicate with others around the world, but I have seen people who are sitting right next to each other text each other! Just remember, it's not what you say but how you text it!

Jackie