I really liked the topic this week of how we communicate. This is like seriously all we do, but we seem to have many more miscommunications than conversations that we correctly interpret. So we learned in class that there are 3 types of communication and this is how it breaks up...
Words- 14%
Tones- 35%
Non-verbal- 51%
How is it that words are the smallest of that percentage? Society drags us to communicate so many other ways other than just basic face to face conversation. Texting, Facebooking, Twitter, Blogging even. All these things are good when used appropriately however the should not be used to replace talking to someone in person. However all to often we seem to let them take priority. Alright, so i have a Facebook and I text as well. But I see now how we spend more time communicating with our thumbs than we do with our mouth. This is kind of my problem with texting and communicating through a computer or something. We are always prone to say something that we wouldnt usually say to that person. It could be something inappropriate, too blunt, rude, or we disclose too much. Plus these ways of communication elimate both the tone of voice and all the non-verbal cues you would be able to pick up on if you could just see the persons face! Plus, we read wayyy more into a text message than we do when we have a conversation with someone in person. Talking to someone can eliminate half of the problem of miscommunicating. However i think all to often we want to be able to disclose something more that we wouldnt feel comfortable to do in person just because we want to be able to say that "me and so and so had the greatest conversation" or whatever. I think we just need to be smart in how we communicate and recognize that people may read into it more if it comes through words on a phone than what comes out of our mouth.
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