Lack Of Interpersonal Communication

Innovation is something that we are all used to by now. The entire world, with the exceptions of specific parts that chooses to stay rural, has been updated in a sense. We continue to fix the items we deem as outdated and enhance gadgets that we feel should be improved. No one denies the ever-changing aspect of life we just accept them and keep moving forward. It's important for us to highlight our excessive achievements, but definitely take notice of the lack of interpersonal communication we have nowadays.
Dating back to 1992, the first text message was sent, "Merry Christmas", it said (Williams). While purpose behind the message was to reach a large group of coworkers in a short period of time, it has now elevated the common conversations. As a result of that simple message, we have created text messaging that have taken the place of face-to-face conversations between family, friends, associates, doctors and patients, teachers and students, and etc. According to a Forbes article, "This generation grew up with the gradual introduction of instant messaging, texting, email, and other forms of written communication.

In the results of the research, multitasking seemed to be agreed upon all the participants. In particular, a female said that texting while having a face-to-face conversation is rude, but her jester would relay to the receiver that she was disinterested in the conversation (Hemmer). In other words, she was using her non-verbal communication skills to communicate to the receiver that her text conversation was more important than the one they were having. More importantly, it seemed to be the aspect of being non-present of a person that was more appealing than sitting with a friend to have a conversation. As a result, could we agree that the innovating technology seems to play a bigger part of our lives, besides just conveying the information