Humans are creatures that rely heavily on all types of communication, creating languages and alphabets to exchange information and ideas. Since the rise of the age of technology, humans have strived to maximize the channels of socialization, producing more and more communications technologies, making it possible to locate a person anytime, anywhere, with just a few pushes of a button. Cellular phones opened up a new world of possibilities, making it more easy than ever to connect with friends and family. With the invention of the internet came chat rooms, instant messaging and electronic mail, or email. Humans then produced new technologies that would seamlessly integrate the best of both technological worlds, thus entering the world of short message service (SMS), better known as text messaging.
There is no denying that user-friendly phone and wireless capabilities have proven to be beneficial in many ways, including a more interconnected social network, more ways to maintain familial relations, and well as expanded businesses, and business opportunities, in unforeseen ways. However, could the constant need to rely on a third party form a communication, which essentially serves as both a physical and virtual barrier, be detrimental to not only relationships, but also social skills? in our efforts to optimize methods of communication, we’ve compromised the quality and social skills necessary for face-to-face communication, and the more these technologies are overused, the more absurd their use becomes.
