Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 11:14 am
Continuing on the threads based on the news article "Clueless guys can't read women",
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080320/sc_livescience/cluelessguyscantread women
I'm wondering if these clueless guys and women suffer from a lack of non-verbal communication skills. Is their ability to read and interpret non-verbal cues diminished by a lack of face to face social interaction because of the new addiction to text messaging?
Speaking of addiction to text messaging, check out this YouTube clip of a city in England that had to install pads on streetlamp posts because so many text-messaging people didn't watch where they were going and injured themselves running into the streetlamp posts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=807vebt-mmQ
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 12:25 pm
It certainly could be, although I think that text messaging is working in conjunction with other things, such as e-mail, chat rooms, message forums, and even talking on mobile phones, to denigrate the art of face-to-face communications. None of these modes of communication allow their participants to use body language or facial expressions. The telegraphic style of shorthand used on text messaging and the Internet is also working to deteriorate the art of written communication.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 1:49 pm
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 9:17 pm
I'm sure of one thing - a lot of the younger part of "Generation Y" sees no problem with replacing face-to-face communication with e-mails, instant messages, texts, and/or social networking (engineering) website posts.
That doesn't concern me as much as the privacy invasion angle of it. None of this stuff was designed to be secure in the first place, even though companies like to make people think that they are.
Worse yet are the people that call places like their bank or their large employer's HR number in public, and provide enough information so that an eavesdropper can steal their identity.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 - 9:30 pm
Yep.
I think there will be kick back on that over some length of time. It's just not been exploited quite enough to reach critical mass.
Replacing face to face makes a LOT of sense. Travel and people are expensive. We have these great networks, we really should be using them way more than we currently are. IMHO, both GEN-X and GEN-Y are leading in this.
