A free-write:
Why has textual communication become the more prevalent use of phones when they were produced to transmit sound?
In many situations, speaking on the phone is considered impolite. Texting, however, is more accepted. I do not necessarily think it is easier to text as, physically, it requires more work. However, not everyone wants to hear the personal conversations of strangers and the ability to have phones outside of our homes introduces the public to our conversations. Texting is discreet, and generally considered more polite than yelling to be heard on a bus or in a restaurant. Also, in many ways, we are visual creatures. It is easy to see words or pictures in front of us as opposed to having them described. Having a textual record or an image keeps the information stored in a more concrete manner than our own memory.
Do you prefer images and/or writing to sound? Which do you trust the most? image? writing? sound? Someone should survey that on FB.
ReplyDeleteDo you really think texting is more polite? I have been yelled at so many times by friends and family members for texting because they thought I was being rude and not paying attention to them. I think it has just gotten to the point that people are so reliant on their phones that not talking to someone at all times has become foreign to most people.
ReplyDeleteIt's more the idea that texting is more discreet than speaking on the phone, and it doesn't add noise to public environments. In the sense of, say, a library where you can't talk on the phone, but you can text and it is seen as acceptable. yeah, my family gets annoyed when I text, too, haha. But I think they would find it much more annoying if I were to have my conversations out loud.
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