Hey people!! This is my very first entry on this blog!! (: What better why to start than to talk about how communication has evolved from history till today!
Do you think that everyday, from the moment we open our eyes to the last person we wish "Goodnight", we are constantly in need for interpersonal communication?
As the comic strip above suggests (not limiting to long-distance communication only), even from the early times of cavemen and what-have-you, humans have been utilising whatever tools available to them to communicate ideas, theories or emotions to one another.
From the amount of tools available to us today for effective communication, i'm rather convinced humans cannot do without interpersonal communication. Simply because: No man is an island. We communicate because we need to survive on this place called earth.
People communicate for various reasons, of course. In earlier ages, tribal tongues, stone inscriptions and even tribal dance were all probably part of communicating a certain code of conduct being expected, ancient worship, and a way of living within the tribe/community. This of course developed further to the spoken and written languages that we use today, which has helped bridge the divide among groups and led the world to interact more closely and effectively with one another. The advent of techonology in communication tools only served to fuel the rapid fire in bringing people in closer contact with one another. Now we are no longer limited to our physical boundaries, but are able to interact and communicate (only with a split-second time lag) with people across the globe with the touch of a button.
Now, we would all think that since communication technology has advanced so successfully (and still is advancing at a rapid pace), people would spend less time and effort trying to communicate. But just look at the people of today! - Television, Internet Chatrooms and Forums, Blogs, MSN, YouTube, Facebook, Smartphones, SMS, Video Conferencing and the list is never-ending! It seems that people are trying all ways and means to be seen, to be heard, to constantly communicate at the first second thier ideas, opinions, or simply what they had for breakfast today.
How many of us feel comfortable in abandoning our handphones for just a day? Or how many are able to stay off the computer for a day or two? The most probable answer to either of the questions above is you can't! It seems that the need for communication in humans have spurred men to develop more effective means of communication, which again in turn has fuelled in us a more desperate want and need to interact with the world out there. Communication today has exceeded the basic needs of communicating for mere survival as compared to thousand of years ago; it has become a lifestyle to live up to, a way of life that has us constantly plugged in to the latest world news, our friend's birthday party, etc.
Our way of communication may have become less physical, but be it SMS-ing, video-conferencing, blogging or even a tribal dance, but it seems that humans now more than ever are hooked onto communicating with one another.
