Texting or talking which is best?

The vlog of texting in relationships, consist of a girl talking about her life and relationships revolving around texting. For me texting is a very tedious type of communication. I feel that verbal communication is a easier and more convenient especially when communicating a relationship. Words in texting can often be misunderstood by the other party. Mixed feelings could also be taken the wrong way in texting, especially in a deep conversation. It's hard to understand a person’s feelings through just words written, a sense of feeling emotions is needed when expressing one's deepest feelings. Often people can have their feelings hurt in misconstrued conversations. Most people don't take texting seriously so people feel it is all right to leave a simple reply, but others who really take texting seriously as their primary sense of communication would take a offense to a simply reply if the person is in need of comfort. Especially a girlfriend going through emotional situations in their life, if a boyfriend that isn't really into texting could really effect his girlfriend in a bad way if he gives a wrong comment or a message of uninterested her feelings and emotional state.

But communicating through text could be a god way of communication especially for a couple that are not good at talking and are too afraid of expressing their true feelings. Some people can express their feelings easier in words even in poetry; people for years have been expressing their emotions of love through words of literature. For my personal experience I have had troubling relationships involving texting because I best express my feeling trough words and in person when I could see my girlfriend with my own eyes and her reaction and feelings for myself. For me cryptic words can make any relationship confusing and difficult to communicate deeply. I feel that texting is a big Misconception or as Plato would say it is just another form of holding oneself in a cave and entertaining with shadows to one’s own amusement. I feel that texting could be a faze that everyone falls under, I feel that expressing ones feeling in person with words face to Dave is the best way of communicating in a relationship and anxiety of one another could be avoided.

A Coming of Techno Age

Technology is great concept that has birthed into our lives, because through technology we as a community can communicate better and more efficiently. For instance cell phones provide an easier way of communication, whether it is calling someone on the phone or sending text messages to them. Text messaging is a huge form of communication, goes hand in hand to what McLuhan says about our development in the media. How our world and society revolved around by ear, we all communicated by hearing what people say and converse back. But now times have changed, no longer do our ears become our only source of communication. As McLuhan said, “We gave our eyes ears”, because writing the invention of the alphabets we are able to read words instead of just hearing what people say on a radio or tape. For instance people used radios to communicate from airport message announcements of flights, now today airports type messages on electronic message boards showing all the listing of flights. Another would be the internet, because people can communicate through blogs, writing out the words out instead of speaking, being able to express oneself freely. And I think the most common and more useful is text messaging on cell phones, because it makes communication more convenient for everybody. For example you have a son sick at home, but you have business meeting to attend, and you can’t make calls because of inconvenience of the meeting. But now you could send text messages to your son and he can communicate back without disturbing the meeting. I feel this goes hand and hand with relationships now a day. People aren’t so rhythmically spoken or even lack romantic gestures to talk to their girlfriends or boyfriends, but talking breaks that barrier, because one can block out their anxiety and nervousness in front of their loves, and express what is on their mind and heart freely without stressing over what their lover is thinking. I think this is a much easier way of getting

But to all great aspects of life nothing last forever and therefore problems veer its ugly head. People now have to learn to catch up to time and the new age technology. People who are much older in their 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s are found lacking in the technological world of today. The older generation has to learn a whole new way of communication and living to adapt to this constant changing age. For example my parents are very behind in this new technological age, where I have to aid and teach them every step of the way on how to use their laptop or using their phones. As McLuhan pointed out that, “Innumerable confusions and a profound feeling of despair usually comes in this age of technology”.(McLuhan) I do agree in this concept because my own family is proof of such confusion of vast new age of technology. I too often feel overwhelmed, because the fact of the barrier of privacy can be broken, often I feel that my privacy is being threaten with the new age of technology such as cameras and what not. I feel like often I’m being watched or someone is spying on me, recording my image or the words I say. I feel like sometimes I can’t always say what I want in fear of being monitored these can also hurt the concept of communication because now people can freely express what they feel or the emotion they wish to exert.

A Moral Media

I think in some ways that the media should be and not so ethical, because society at times aren't prepared for the sad truth of either being racial, and some people just rather go through and take the problem head on. So we must see media through a ethical view point, for example you see a group of people of all different races gathered striking against a company, exploiting Constitutional Racism. One may thinking those rich white people are so racist, but amongst the all the strikers there are white people. And for another example would be religion, some people have their own idea of what is the best choice on behalf of their life. But there are those that think badly of others ideas, because people like higher up company owners feel what’s the point of having these factory workers if I could have the work done triple the time with machines. I would like to take from one of Postman’s ideas of the world through his eyes. “One is the natural environment and consists of things like air, trees, rivers, and caterpillars. The other is the media environment, which consists of language, numbers, images, holograms, and all of the other symbols, techniques, and machinery that make us what we are.”(Postman) Postman’s idea of these two worlds we humans only see is very true. As a matter of fact I see it today, people who are all about the “Bling”, becoming very materialistic. People see only things for what can make them look good, for example girls want the latest purses or the in fashion clothes. Men are no different; we want fast cars, more money, and big houses. The media provides with so much of the celebrity high life that they pretty much promote the glamorous life, they want us to follow. In the real world people don’t live that extravagant, and people can’t afford even one thing some of those celebrities own. There is also a sense of ego that coincides with our media as well, because I don’t really see the point in having a big house, whether there are and specifics of advantage or disadvantage. I real think to myself would having a big house really make me happy or promote me into some egotistical prick? A lot of the time I see the media as a source of entertainment, not my open reality to the real world. A lot of what the media may say can be distorted, because it’s coming from one person point of view, not from the entire public, but what journalist or writers believe is the precise thought. Often times I look at the bigger picture and from my own view point and not just what the media says even if they claim it is on behalf of what the major public thinks. Because in the end it is really how I perceive things and what I believe and not what others rather have me think of or believe in