Instant Message, the distance maker
When was
your last time chatting on the QQ or sending a short message? A week, a day, or
just now. The statistics signifies that instant message(IM) has become a necessity
to many people in life like water or air. They habitually maintain their
relationships with their friends, relatives and anyone they care about. Nevertheless,
IMs may dilute the relation in an inconceivable way.
The
main reason, which is also the main difference between IM and normal
communication, why it may cause distance is that both communicators are
invisible to one another. When people use IMs, they always use oral language
not written language. These two languages which are parallel can be easily
distinguished because the spoken language is more casual and consists a lot of facial
expression and tones. Otherwise it might become ambiguous. So, when someone
receives an instant message, he will interpret the message by imagining the
situation and miss enormous information for most emotions like sincerity,
happiness or anger are contained in the tones. These sorts of little misunderstanding
will add up to become huge gap between two people due to the use of IM.
Another
reason for us to give up instant message is that we need more opportunities to
train our communication skills. To take account of the cause of the prevalence
of the instant message, we know that many people feel comfortable when they can
chat with others without seeing others’ faces and don’t have to respond to
others immediately. I have encountered so many people who are funny and creative
in the world of IM but dull and boring in the real world. They just lack
exercises. But the real relationship needs passion to cement. By using IM, we
can never progress.
Thus,
IM make our bonds no longer close and everybody become a string of number in
the address list. Is that what we are pursuing? Convenient, albeit unreal. We
should go out and communicate with others face to face, only in that way can we
gain the real and firm relationship.
Perhaps we should reconsider the way we communicate with others.
ReplyDeleteBut there is no denying that SMS is really popular today,all in all it's really convenient.
ReplyDeleteI think we should draw on advantages and avoid disadvantages. Instant message is really convenient. We should use it in a proper way but not restrict its development.
ReplyDeleteAt least they try to communicate to some extent!
ReplyDeleteInstant message has tightly connected with our daily. In fact personally I do enjoy the convenience that it brings to me. Take QQ as an example, the function of QQ expressions do bring much entertainment when i am chatting. As long as we use it in appropriate way, the instant message still brings more merits than demerits
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