It seems like everyone in the world has used email, but is it the best way to communicate? This week’s article looks at how we have changed and how other types of communication services are likely to change the way that we communicate. Go to the link below and read the article. Write a reflective comment that shows you have read the article, expresses your views, and addresses my questions.
The article talks about how the new services make our interactions faster. How long do you expect a text message to take to get to a friend? As the services make communication easier, the messages are becoming more frequent. How is this affecting the quality of what you write? Is your writing less personal? How will filtering affect communication? Do you use filters? Is having a more public profile something that is good or bad? Explain why. Respond to the following quotation: “You can argue that because we have more ways to send more messages, we spend more time doing it. That may make us more productive, but it may not.”
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While living in Jordan I expect about 3 minutes for a text message to get to a friend, in the States I expected just a couple of seconds. More frequent updates means the quality of what a person writes is lower than the quality of say a longer, more specific message. Status updates on my facebook tend to be less personal than an email message to my best friend obviously. Filtering has its positives and negatives, if you want to see where your best friend is you can do it in just a couple of clicks but if you don’t filter than it could take you a while to find your friend’s status update in the news feed. I do not use filters on facebook. In my opinion, having a more public profile is a horrible idea because there could be some pictures on your facebook that you don’t want your grandmother to see. I agree with the quotation above if there is more available, people would be stupid not to use them and in result it will make us more productive but the quality of such messages/status updates will be lower than a private, more personal message.
Well, I get received messages when people get my texts... so I know that they get them within 10 seconds if they check their phones right then. But I expect a message to go through within a minute and usually if I don't get a response within 5 minutes, depending on the text I'll send a second.
I do write less personal things of course, especially on Facebook (unless it's the inbox). But what I write on my status and on walls, photos are pretty generic-- it's usually stuff that I don't really mind people reading.
Filtering does effect communication- there is just a loss of communication. But most of the people I would actually want to share details of my life with I talk to almost everyday online or in person. Then again, I only have two close friends that I would trust to tell anything to. But with other friends, I must say I do sometimes use filters... just in the sense that, they don't need to hear as much, or I know they won't really care.
I think having a public profile is in a grey area. It's good because I can keep in touch with people all over the world... even if it's only a couple times a year with some. Facebook both offers real-time chat and services more like email- so time zones aren't really a big deal. Then again... there are aspects of other peoples lives' that I don't want to see for many reasons.
I agree with the quote- because it's faster we can do it more, but that doesn't mean it's better. Because we spend more time sending messages we don't do other things. But even those messages have become less productive because the are less personal, they break down relationships and categorize everyone you know in one large group of "friends" instead of the pyramid of friends with those who are very close at the top and those you speak to a couple times a year at the bottom.
Personally, I take a long time to message back to friends by text messaging so I don’t expect a friend to immediately respond—my phone is hardly ever with me. If by quality, you mean texting in shorthand, I do find it easier to do so when text messaging. However, I don’t think that my writing is less personal because of this. Filtering will affect communication by allowing people to only see what information they choose. I do use filters a lot with social networking sites because I don’t necessarily want to know a lot of excess information about what people are doing every other minute. Having a public profile is a personal choice. I don’t have a public profile because I don’t want to share information with people I don’t know. I disagree with the quote. Just because we have more ways to do something doesn’t mean that we will spend more time doing it. In addition, the term “productive” can also be inferred differently. I don’t think spending two or three hours a day sending meaningless messages (if people send them frequently) is “productive”.
It only takes between 30 seconds to 1 full minute to take one text message to go from one person to another, when counting the typing & all.
I rarely talk via messages as much as I used to, it maybe is just because of the task of trying to make communication more efficient.
My writing is never personal when it comes to texting.
Filtering will effect the choice for communicators by spreading out the choices for other people & what they wish to see or do.
I don't use filters, good or bad, because I don't seem to find the section or settings box where to fix the filters & sometimes I would resist the filters possibly because it could be a verbal explicitness filter or it's irreversable.
There is always a coin-flipping chance when having a more public profile is good or bad nowadays because cyberbullying is an issue nowadays & also maybe for someone who wants to get to know the other a little more after they meet them only once.
I fully agree to the quote because what happens in the future is all based on chance & how the reign of social networks will last & the changes that will occur.
From experience i think it takes about 20 seconds to send a message but really differs, concerning the telecommunication company you use. I think, with text messaging becoming so much easier and faster to do, it is messing with my grammar and spelling. Using filters it becomes easier to correct your mistakes when sending a message but it also makes us agitated. It encumbers us with such minor errors, that it seems like you are spending more time correcting your mistakes than actually typing a message. Of course filters are useful and beneficial to those who care so much about grammar and spelling, but for those who simply want to deliever a message,.... thats a whole different story. I personally think that public profiling is a good thing. It shows who is sending the message and can successfully identify the sender of the message. I disgree with the quote. Simply because there are more methods of communication and delievering of messages available it does not make us become more productive. People will find easier and faster ways to send messages and stay with that method until someone comes up with an easier and faster method.
I still text people in Egypt eventhough I'm in Jordan. Sometimes I don't know why, but it takes very long to get sent. Usually it sends to Egypt right away. I don't post public things in Facebook, because I don't want people to see my privacy conversation and etc. In Korean Facebook,in people's wall, you can post privacy things by locking the conversation, but theres no privacy section except sending texts. For the texts,you have to refresh the page, so it makes me worse and it's just waste of time. I think sending the text from the phone is much easier and faster, but it actually costs money. There should be better contacting programs coming out with the free money charge.
I think it kind of depends where you live, like here in Jordan it takes a little longer time than it does in the States. I think that emails are more private and status updates only tell how you are feeling and what you are thinking. Filtering can be good and be bad. I don't use filtering on facebook, because having your profile being public to EVERYONE would be upsetting and not right. I do agree with quotation because if there are more people "putting themselves" out there, there's no point in using it. The results will be, anyway, more productive and status updates will still be "less" private and emails more private.
I expect a text message two minutes or so to get to a friend. The increased speed of messaging has invented a new way of talking. This is known in the gaming world as "leet speek", this is to say that the words used are shortened and simplified. My writing has become more distant in some situations but in other situations it can be very personal. Filtering will allow for faster searching and viewing but on the flip side will allow you to see less of people. I don't use filters personally. Having a very public profile I think is a very bad idea. This is because there are some pictures you want your "best" friends to see and not your so-so friends. This quote is saying that because we have more messaging systems we use up more of our time but it can also make us work faster.
I expect a text message two minutes or so to get to a friend. The increased speed of messaging has invented a new way of talking. This is known in the gaming world as "leet speek", this is to say that the words used are shortened and simplified. My writing has become more distant in some situations but in other situations it can be very personal. Filtering will allow for faster searching and viewing but on the flip side will allow you to see less of people. I don't use filters personally. Having a very public profile I think is a very bad idea. This is because there are some pictures you want your "best" friends to see and not your so-so friends. This quote is saying that because we have more messaging systems we use up more of our time but it can also make us work faster.
-Tristan
I expect text messages to take about 30 seconds - 1 minute to get to people in Jordan, and about 2 minutes to get to people outside of Jordan.
Because of how quick current-day messaging is, I usually write very vague messages, or messages with little clarification. It's almost like having a real life conversation, so I can always clear something up if someone is confused. I wouldn't say that my writing is less personal, though it is obviously much different from something I would write elsewhere.
I don't think filtering will affect communication much. People can still choose to not filter, and do things very broadly. And those who choose to filter, will most likely not miss much.
I'd say it's both. It could save you from answering questions from friends (having all the answers to common questions on your profile), but you may not want people you aren't very close to knowing all about your relationship status, schedule, etc...
I think this rings very true. While we may be able to send messages quicker now, we are also prone to wasting/spending more time with doing such.
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