Kaitlyn Cheyne S.

Llavore

PT1A

Why do We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other

We are all fascinated by technology, yet we allow it to lead us down paths we do not want to
pursue. Our pocket-sized electronics have such psychological clout that they alter not simply what we do
but also who we are. We take a break from our grief and reverie to check our phones. It matters because
we are setting ourselves up for problems in our interpersonal relationships and our capacity for self-
reflection. We are adjusting to a new manner of being alone as a set.

People want to be with each other and linked to all of the places they could be, but they also
want to personalize their lives. People value control over where they focus their attention the most, so you
want to attend a meeting but only pay attention to the things that interest you. Human relationships are
complex, messy, and demanding, and we use technology to clean them up. One of the things that happen
when we do this is that we compromise discussion for connection — we shortchange ourselves, and we
appear to forget this over time.

We are vulnerable. People experience fictitious empathy as though it were genuine empathy. We
have higher expectations of technology and lower expectations of one another. We are lonely, yet we are
terrified of intimacy. We want our technology to give us the illusion of connection without the obligations
of friendship. We resort to technology to help us feel connected in ways we can control, but we are not
quite in control, and we are not quite at ease. Phones in our pockets are transforming our brains and hearts
these days. Thus technology provide us with three fantasies: we may direct our focus anywhere we want,
we will always be heard, and we will never be alone.

I do not believe we should abandon our technology, but we need to cultivate a more self-aware
connection with technology. We should begin to see solitude as a positive thing and make space for it.
Describe precious places and how to reclaim them for communication. Most importantly, we must listen
to each other, even when it is boring. We disclose ourselves to one other when we stumble, hesitate, or
forget our words. The technology aims to redefine human connection – how we care for one another and
ourselves – while also providing us with the opportunity to reconfirm our values and direction.

8 FORMS OF COMMUNICATION
TELEGRAMS (TELEGRAPH MESSAGES)

 Description

o Written message transmitted by using an electric device. The message was carried
along wires, and the text written or printed and delivered by hand or teleprinter.
Telegram services were not inaugurated until electric telegraphy became available.

o Primary use - Telegrams were most notably use throughout history to convey
urgent and critical information including news. Telegrams were generally use to
transmit important information.

 Historical Background
o Historically, telegrams were sent between a network of interconnected telegraph offices.
A person visiting a local telegraph office paid by the word to have a message
telegraphed to another office and delivered to the addressee on a paper form. Messages
sent by telegraph could be delivered faster than mail, and even in the telephone age, the
telegram remained popular for social and business correspondence. At their peak in
1929, an estimated 200 million telegrams were sent. Telegram services still operate in
much of the world, but e-mail and text messaging have rendered telegrams obsolete in
many countries, and the number of telegrams sent annually has been declining rapidly
since the 1980s. Where telegram services still exist, the transmission method between
offices is no longer by telegraph, but by telex or IP link. Telegram is a very slow
communication method by 21stcentury standards.

 Advantage

o Reliability
o Can be read by all
o Jobs creation
o Telegraphs are an efficient way to send information quickly

 Disadvantage

o The focus of telegraphs is on important information, as the speed of sending them

depends on their size
o Poor quality communication
o No secrecy
o Lack of personal touch

HANDWRITTEN LETTERS OR MESSAGES

 Description

o A piece of writing that is handwritten is one that someone has written using a pen or
pencil rather than by typing it.

 Historical Background
o “According to the testimony of ancient historian Hellanicus, the first recorded
handwritten letter was written by Persian Queen Atossa, around 500 BC” (Tomshinsky,
2013, p. 112). From Tomshisky’s article, it is possible to say that written letters started
in Persia, and since then this simple form of sending messages has greatly evolved.
According to Tomshinsky (2013), letters were used primarily for communicating short
messages and notes, whether it be for business, personal use, or for royal individuals to
use.
o Moreover, pigeons were one of the first animals used to “deliver” these letters because
of their good sense of direction, and this system soon came to be known as the pigeon
post (Conrad, 2013). There was a shift from horses and other animals as the means of
diffusion of these letters to humans in the form of a ‘Master of the Posts’ in 1516, in the
United Kingdom (Tomshinsky, 2013, p. 114). This general idea of a specific individual
delivering letters to the receivers eventually led to what we now know as “postmen”.

 Advantage

o A hand written letter is seen as a more personal form of communication because the
sender is personally taking the time out of their day to write a letter.
o Hand written letters are not used as often as emails which also adds more value to
them.
o Through a hand written letter, the reader can almost feel an author’s emotion.
o Using a pen or pencil on paper is a cheap way to communicate with others.

 Disadvantage

o Letters, although more personal, can take several days to be delivered to the sender.
The postal service does not deliver on Sunday's except during major holidays when
the demand for delivering packages is higher than normal. Other than during major
holiday times such as Christmas and New Years, the postal service will not deliver
mail Sunday's.
o In addition to the slow time it takes to deliver a letter, they also can be misspelled and
lost easily resulting in the author to either restart the letter, or erase any words written
in pencil, which could result in smudge marks and can appear dirty and
unprofessional.

TYPEWRITER

 Description
 o A typewritten letter or messages are the messages that have been typed on a typewriter or
word processor. Typewritten letter or messages uses a typewriter.
o Typically, a typewriter has an array of keys, and pressing one causes a different single
character to be produced on the paper, by causing a ribbon with dried ink to be struck
against the paper by a type element similar to the sorts used in movable type letterpress
printing. Its font is Courier New in Microsoft Word.

 Historical Background

o It is often used around the year 1874 for personal messages and business purposes when
computers and printers where not yet invented.
o The first commercial typewriters were introduced in 1874 A typewriter is a hand-
operated mechanical device with which on typing keys can produce printed characters on
paper. It is a hand-operated machine or electromechanical machine with keys for
producing alphabetical characters, numerals, and typographical symbols one at a time on
paper inserted around a roller.

o Primary use - For Business Purposes, Documentation, Personal Messages, and Research
Projects

 Advantage

o Can make letters or messages without using electricity

o Cheap Ink, Instant printout, Permanence,
o It does not cause eyestrain even if you make it for several hours
o Inexpensive

 Disadvantage

o Time Consuming, Difficulty Revising

o Hard to make copies of work,
o Uses tippex to remove the mistake
o Typewriters are also often very noisy

E-MAIL MESSAGES

 •
Description
o Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail")
between people using electronic devices. Email is a computerized system for sending
digital messages from one computer to one or more other computers. Email operates
 across computer networks, which today is primarily the Internet. Email is a form of
communication that is generally intended to be brief.
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o An email message is a text, typically brief and informal, that is sent or received over
a computer network.
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o E-mail messages are usually simple text messages, attachments (such as image files
and spreadsheets) can be included.

 Historical Background
o It is invented by Ray Tomlinson, email first entered limited use in the 1960s and by the
mid-1970s had taken the form now recognized as email.

o The first commercial typewriters were introduced in 1874 A typewriter is a hand-

operated mechanical device with which on typing keys can produce printed characters on
paper. It is a hand-operated machine or electromechanical machine with keys for
producing alphabetical characters, numerals, and typographical symbols one at a time on
paper inserted around a roller.

o Primary use - •Business Purposes, Personal Message, Job Application

 Advantage
o It’s Free
o Instant in sending and receiving messages and attachments
o Accessible from anywhere
o Can communicate globally
o Can easily store messages and attachments
o Easy to prioritize
o Email messages can be sent to multiple recipients at the same time.
 Disadvantage
o Misunderstandings
o Malicious Use leads to bully or upset people
o Uses Electricity - Uses Internet Connection
o Needs Computer or Smartphone
o Risk of having viruses

TEXT OR SMS

 Description

o Texting is the process of sending and receiving brief written messages using a
cellular (mobile) phone.
 o Also called text messaging, mobile messaging, short mail, point- to-point short-
message service, and Short Message Service (SMS).

o Primary use - Convenience Time saving Informal communication

 Historical Background
o The SMS concept was first developed in the Franco-German GSM cooperation in
1984 by Friedhelm Hillebrand and Bernard Ghillebaert. The first text message was
sent years later on December 3rd, 1992 from Neil Papworth, a former developer at
Sema Group Telecoms. Mobile phones didn’t have keyboards at the time, so
Papworth had to type the message on a PC. Papworth’s text — “Merry Christmas” —
was successfully sent to Richard Jarvis at Vodafone.
o Most early GSM mobile phone handsets did not support the ability to send text
messages. The first SMS gateways for cellphones were network notifications, usually
to inform of voice mail messages and billing alerts. Nokia was the first handset
manufacturer whose total GSM phone line in 1993 supported user-sending of SMS
text messages. In 1997, it became the first manufacturer to produce a mobile phone
with a full keyboard: the Nokia 9000i Communicator.
o Like any new technology, initial growth for SMS was slow. The average American
user sent 0.4 texts per month in 1995. Gradually, phones and networks adapted to
better accommodate SMS. In 1999, texts could finally be exchanged between
different networks, which increased its usefulness. By 2000, the average number of
text messages sent in the U.S. increased to 35 a month per person.

 Advantages

o Texting is immediate
o Text messaging is personal and everywhere
o Helps you with internal communications
o It’s inexpensive

 Disadvantages

o Obsessive/Addictive Socially Disruptive

o Misunderstanding
o Erodes Language Skills

FACEBOOK (POST)

 Description

o A Facebook post or "status update" is a message in a special delivery cyber-bottle.

 o It is a comment, picture or other media that is posted on the user's Facebook page or
"wall."

 Historical Background

o Because the users of Thefacebook were socially networking with each other, the user’s
profile information was available to his or her network, which was the most basic form of
sharing on Thefacebook. But about six months after the launch, the sharing options were
extended with the introduction of a so-called “Wall” on each profile page, where users
could post messages for their friends and write on their walls. Users were now able to
share messages with each other, and later on it became possible to share photos (from
October 2005). When sharing, however, you had to go to your friends’ profile pages to
see if they had made updates, for example written new messages on their wall or
uploaded new photos to their site. Updates were thus not visible to your network unless
they visited your profile page. However, it was possible to get in touch with one of your
friends by “poking” them or by sending a message; and from October 2005 it was
possible to “tag” a person in a photo. You did this by writing which of your friends are in
the photo and linking to their profiles
o The most important breakthroughs were the option of making status updates (April 2006)
and the features News Feed and Mini Feed (September 2006). Status updates made it
possible, by means of a small writing area (“My Status”) on your own page to tell people
what you were doing without having to change your more permanent profile information
whenever you did something new that you wanted to tell your friends about. News Feed
and Mini Feed made it easier for you to keep up with your friends’ activities in the
absence of a status update. Whereas you previously had to visit your friends’ profile
pages to secure new information, it was now possible to allow information to flow into
your own Facebook page automatically by displaying either all network activity (News
Feed) or only the activity of one particular user (Mini Feed). Status updates and feeds
about what was happening, what you were doing and when became a crucial new
bonding option in Facebook’s network. In particular, feeds led to an explosive growth in
the radius and speed of messages. According to one of the developers of News Feed, it
was not really their intention to invent a platform that could be used to support global
activism, but this seemed to be what had happened: for example, posts about the creation
of new groups on topics such as support for Darfur or breast cancer spread at the speed of
lightning, making groups grow from zero to half a million members in just a few days
(blog.facebook.com, 6 October 2006).

 Advantages

o It keeps you updated and helps you in many aspect

o Free of cost
o Facebook lets you connect to different people from everywhere in the world.
 o Unlike Tweets, Facebook posts aren't limited to 140 characters. They can be as long as a
paragraph and illustrated with pictures and videos.

 Disadvantages

o False information
o Addiction Fame
o Privacy is compromised

TWEETS

 Description

o A tweet is simply a post on Twitter, which is a very popular social network and
microblogging service. Because Twitter only allows messages of 280 characters or less,
it's likely called a tweet because it sort of resembles the same type of short and sweet
chirp you might hear from a bird.

o Primary use - Business Promotion, Social Communication, Networking

 Historical Background
o Twitter began as an idea that Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey (@Jack) had in 2006.
Dorsey had originally imagined Twitter as an SMS-based communications platform.
Groups of friends could keep tabs on what each other were doing based on their
status updates. Like texting, but not. Twitter had its fair share of growing pains
during its formative years. Twitter's user base grew at astounding rates and quite
frequently the service would be over capacity.
o Initially, users had no way of replying to one another on Twitter. Some users would
include an @ symbol before a username to identify another user within a Tweet. This
became such a prevalent way to acknowledge another user that the Twitter team
added the functionality natively to the Twitter platform. The same thing happened
with hashtags, which are now an integral part of the Twitter ecosystem.
o This user-driven functionality is also the source of retweets. Users wanted a way to
re-post a message from a Twitter user while including credit to the user who
originally tweeted it. Users started to add RT before sending the message, signaling
to their followers that the following tweet was a report. In August 2010, this
functionality was officially added to the platform.
 Advantage

o It has massive audience potential - You can connect with many famous people like the
stars and celebrity by using Twitter , Most of the famous people are now using Twitter to
provide a message to their followers and it is one of the best way to stay connected with
the famous people .
o Easy to find new contacts, even when outside circle of friends
o Can post something that will provoke the interest of other people
o Immediately post and seen

 Disadvantage

o Addiction
o has limited message size, It has 140 characters per post
o lost the time
o spam problems

INSTAGRAM POSTS.

 Description

o Instagram is a free, online photo-sharing application and social network platform

that was acquired by Facebook in 2012.
o Instagram allows users to edit and upload photos and short videos through a mobile
app

 Historical Background

o Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social media application that was launched in
2010 by Kevin Systrom.
o The first prototype of Instagram was a web app called Burbn, which was inspired by
Systrom's love of fine whiskeys and bourbons.
o The Instagram app was launched on Oct. 6, 2010, and racked up 25,000 users in one
day.
o From the beginning, the primary focus of the app was to feature photographs,
specifically those taken on mobile devices.

 Advantage

o It increases the artistic ability by taking pictures at different scenarios.

o Communication will be improved.
 o The main feature of Instagram is that it allows you to share photos. Sometimes the
images are able to convey more information than a written text. Images have the
ability to evoke emotions and feelings. They are also more attractive than other forms
of interaction. This establishes a much more effective communication system among
users.
o Promotes artistic skills

 Disadvantage

o False advertising
o Designed to be portable
o Possibility of image theft
o Privacy of images is collective not individual