Has our global dependence on mobile devices (CellPhones,Blackberry, ect.) caused a loss of interpersonal communication skills.
The reason I ask this is I have younger sibilings and has started dating in the past year. The girls he dates they can't even talk when they are together. They spend all day on email, texting, or myspace. I think this has caused big problem for them to sit down and talk to someone face to face.
Just wandering your opinions.
yes, you're right…….people spend most of the time of the day on email, texting, or myspace, and others……wasting their time instead of having a good conversation face to face….so when they get the chance to talk face-to-face they find themselves without anything to say
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no doubt whatsoever..they've been dumbing down america
since at least 1983….
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Yes – i agree – instead of picking up the phone to confront someone you have a problem with or fought with, people email/text and IM now – b/c its easier to mask the confrontation – sad isn't it?
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I was born in 1991 and I think that a lot of kids my age are like that. Speaking over the computer is wonderful if at long distances, but I'd prefer to talk face-to-face. The only thing that I hate about speaking over the computer is the very informal "txting" that people do. That's my biggest pet peeve.
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I truly believe that the old fashion way of communicating is gone. time changes, and well every generation has some new gadget.
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Yes there is something to be said for that. And it's not even only with the younger generation either. People in general are just so caught up in their mobile devices that they're omitting basic manners nowadays.
As a teacher, I've seen MANY kids get in the car with their parent afterschool and not even be acknowledged, because the parent was on the phone! I mean, what ever happened to "hi honey how was your day"? How sad!
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yes, you're right…….people spend most of the time of the day on email, texting, or myspace, and others……wasting their time instead of having a good conversation face to face….so when they get the chance to talk face-to-face they find themselves without anything to say
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I definitely agree.
When I was growing up in the 50s in the Hudson Valley, we ate together every night as a family. We vacationed as a family, the family was an institution.
Today, everything is "me" and not "us," people in the same family talk to each other on cellphones, and email on blackberries, and don't speak to each other "face to face." If this is done in the familly, then how can you expect them to interact any differently in the business world.
I'm a sales rep, and you wouldn't believe how really difficult it is today to get someone to meet and speak on the phone.
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