So I like to find the funny things in life so I went to YouTube for my Blog research. I found a video from Comedians Key and Peele. Keegan is texting Peele about meeting up at the bars, and because you don't get as many social cues in a text message things get heated. Keegan things that he is arguing with his Peele. While Peele thinks he is just having a friendly conversation with Keegan about meeting up at the bars. Text messages cuts off some of the channels we use to communicate. With a text I could receive something that say's "You wanna go" Like in the video. It can be taken as "Do you want to fight" or as "Do you want to go the bar right now?" So you lose a sense of expression. I was having a conversation with a friend of mine over text and she began to be sarcastic over text but I and read that over text. So I thought she was really mad at me, then I begin to argue with her. I came to find out she was serious then I realized what had happened in our conversation.
We were lacking nonverbal communication, which is essential
for an effective conversation. We are missing our elements of nonverbal
communication when we text. We are missing proxemics which is how close we are
to people while we talk with them, kinesics which is our body movements. Which
can be anything from facial expressions, to hand gestures and eye contact. All
very important for communicating, out facial expressions communicate emotions,
eye contact expresses interest in what the other person was saying, it
represents respect and lets the person talking know that you are listening to
them. You lose paralanguage which is voice inflection, tone, pace, and pitch
which all add meaning and depth to what you are saying. The last thing you
lose with texting is haptics which is our sense of touching, which conveys
affection or commands attention. If you have a friends who is going through a
hard time, and you are texting. You cannot give them a hug or touch their
shoulder to show them you care or are here for them.
In the article I found it begins by talking you
back to childhood, when your mother gave you a look and you knew you were in
trouble. Even without her talking the child knows that he better straighten up
and behave. Then it goes into talking about how nonverbal communication can
sometimes be negative because it can be misinterpreted. Like we learned in
lecture it is ultimately all up for your personal interpretation. Say we are
having a three person conversation. I could be trying to convey one point and
he might interpret that view point differently from me and from the other
person. But If I use effective nonverbal communication it is more likely
that we will all be on the same page. Then the article reemphasizes how
nonverbal communication enhances a conversation and adds clarity.
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