Wednesday, 8 October 2008

Digital Communication vs Voice Conversation

Communticating with SMS in text language does have some disadvantages. Sometimes, the receiever of your messages does not understans what you mean when writing in text language and this can cause complications and mean that you have to use more texts explaining what you actually meant, writing it in proper english the second time round. Also, it is hard for someone to detect when somebody is using sarcasism or is actually being serious and this can sometimes cause problems. However, it is much cheaper to send text messages but more often than not it takes you 5 or more texts to have a conversation you could have within 3 minutes on the phone. So it does take more effort and a much longer time period to have a conversation via text message.
When having a proper voice conversation, phone call, it is a much quicker way of having a conversation, due to the fact that both communicators are able to understand each easily, it is easier to detect what some really means as you can hear the tone of their voice, detecting if they are joking or not and you can talk in proper english which takes alot less thought and effort.
Also, the downside to sending a wuick e-mail against having a short conversation is, the reciever of the e-mail does not always recieve the e-mail quickly enough and the repsonse is very delayed, some people are confident enough with computers to send one back. Once again, it is hard to detect what people actually mean. Also, secondly, it is much simpler to have a short face to face conversation with someone, as you then definietly know that they have the message you wanted them to have, you have their response and there is no confusion.

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