Summary: The Influence Of Technology On Face-To-Face Communication

As Albert Einstein said “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity” Oct 25, 2012. Technology has advanced tremendously over time and will only continue to ameliorate over the years. Through this everlasting growth, as a society we have begun to develop several habits from over utilizing technology. It has become exceedingly rare to walk into a room and not be able to point out an abundance of people concentrating strictly on their cell phones or technological devices. Technology has driven us to deprivation of face to face communication, to creating a persona of a different person over social media, and to the absence of spending time engaging into things outside of the world of technology, and has most

We often use social media or texting to escape the reality of having to say things to people in person. We began to rely on having conversations over the phone, to the point where when discussions happen in person, we tend to freeze up and have a hard time getting our point across. As Przybylski and Weinstein of the University of Essex wrote in 2013, “Recent advancements in communication technology have enabled billions of people to connect more easily with people great distances away, yet little has been known about how the frequent presence of these devices in social settings influences face-to-face interactions” (Przybylski & Weinstein, 2012, p. 1). To relate to a real life example, imagine yourself texting someone every day for hours and hours saying you’re happy when your tears are falling or pretending to laugh out loud when you are actually not so enthusiastic or taking hours to plan a reply with your group of friends. What would happen when you decide to meet that person face to face? Will you be able to know what they are actually feeling? Or will you be able to pause for a second and think about a respond? The answer is no this would be a battle you would not be able to win because while having a face to face talk there is no appear offline in real person or be right back I need to think and then respond, everything is directly on the spot. So if you actually are relying so much on technology you will lack the skill of having a mature real talk with anyone. Technology has really abducted the beautiful sense in peoples’ relationships and has taken away what really