How I Communicate.

When I want to talk to a friend, family member, or teacher I usually use three different types of communication to get in touch with each one. Depending on the person that I am talking to determines what type of technology I use to get in touch with them. When I talk with my friends, for the most part, I text them because I never know if they are in class or doing something in which they cannot talk and that is the easiest way to communicate. I don’t really like to text message, but since it is all that my friends do I guess that I have changed the way that I feel about it a little bit. If I need to talk to my mom, dad, grandmother, or someone from the older generation I normally use the telephone (well not a telephone, but my cell phone). My mom has finally started to get texting, so now sometimes I text my mom, but I would say that over all I prefer to use my cell phone to talk to people.

I like to talk on the phone with my friends and family more because for one thing I am a very fast talker and have a lot to say, therefore typing or texting takes a lot more effort and time rather than a phone call. Also I feel that face-to-face or a verbal conversation is more personal than a text or email. And I also think that an e-mail is more personal than a letter, I could not tell you the last time that I actually sat down and wrote a letter though. In the past year I have not written any letters by hand, but I do use my email on a day-to-day basis. Sometimes I wish that people still wrote letters because I think that they are more personal than an e-mail, but now-a-days it is so much easier to just hop on your computer and type a note or letter. I also feel that letters are way more personal because with an e-mail you can not see the handwriting that the person writes and with an e-mail anyone could technically be writing it and you would never know.

I use my cell phone everyday all day. I honestly do not know what I would do with out it. I recently just got a black berry and now my phone is attached to my hip more than it already was before. Even though I love my phone and feel naked when I do not have it, I do enjoy when my phone either dies or is broken for a few days because then I do not have the distraction. Also people are unable to get in touch with me and it is kind of nice sometimes. Now that I have a blackberry I can get on the Internet, which also means that I can check my Facebook more than I already do with my computer.

I get on my Facebook page at least three times a day and I am what you can call addicted. I really like to get on and see what my friends are doing and keep in touch with old ones. I stay in touch with a lot of my friends from high school, old time elementary school friends, and even friends from college who I might not see everyday. Facebook also has a new application in which you can chat with other friends and it is kind of like instant messaging. That is another way that I keep in touch with people that I have not talked to in a while. I really enjoy Facebook, I really wish that I didn’t, but I would say that it is a big way I communicate with others in my life. I hope that communication stays the way it is because it is becoming less and less personal and if that is the case then in a few years people will be communicating with out any verbal interaction.