COMMUNICATE! as my blog heading says.
What does communication means to you?
When we need to start a blog for this module, most of my classmates already had an exisiting blog. Well, I don't remember that I had a blog~ (: because I don't communicate using LINEAR means. (: which means I seldom blog even though i use to have a blog, I seldom chat on MSN even though I have a MSN account. I reject or neglect invitations on facebook. But that doesn't mean that I dun communicate~ (:
When I was young i go for what is cool~ (meaning IRC, ICQ, MSN, Friendster, Facebook). Now i realize that i don't really have time for that, (studies, friends, volunteer work.................) all those are taking all of my times and i reach home so late that when i go online no one will be there to COMMUNICATE with me. LOL~
Don't be frighten by my blog address (you-better-comment). It doesn't post any threat that all who visit must comment. (: I just thought of this blog address since comments are used to graded us (COM101 students). (: hoping people will drop by.
communicating is part of our life every day. when we go to school, we talk to our friends, that is communicating. but it doesn't means we talk to everyone we see. because there are times our first impression of someone tells us that he/she is not "your kind". Then we step back from them and try to avoid talking to them just because we know they won't "make our day".
I come from a globalized volunteer work organization. Communicating with my friends worldwide is very different from communicating from friends in Singapore. When it is my day time, it could be their night time. When I am so used to typing English in online chatrooms, they are typing traditional chinese. But that didn't stop us from being friends. We try to put in effort to meet each other online and chat for an hour or so. We meet up each other once a year in Taiwan and we are still so close.
Communicating can do wonders. It can change our mindset and make us feel good.
My volunteer work has a TV channel in taiwan. Yup!~ It started as a small and humble TV station where no one view it(even though it is free). As technology started to improvised, our TV channel gained popularity. It has drama, just like all TV channels has, but their drama are real life experiences of people. They were norminated for awards and won a few. The dramas are not made up stories and some people who watch it, felt that it is a good influence for all ages. Everyone can watch the show, no age limit.
Of course they also have news. One thing different from theirs news and other tv channel news in taiwan is that they don't report things that are nonsensical (you know? taiwan news are so stupid~ it is like relationship between in-laws are reported). Their news bring peace and knowledge to pubic(meaningful and useful).
As the technology advanced and there are more volunteer worldwide, putting the channel on TV wasn't enough. Worldwide volunteers wants to view it and wants to know what is the latest show on the channel. So, it is now on the internet as well. (: (if you all wants the website to see how different it is, can get it from me. (: )
Technology improved the way we can communicate. From linear to transactional.
because of how it has improvised, we can communicate to friends and relative from all over the world. I can feel it as my brother is workin in Japan now. The easiest way to communicate is to go on msn or Skype. Skype is like a 3G handphone, FREE!
But I always have a doubt. Did this improvised technology make us more lazy? When I was young and got no handphone, I can memorize my friend's number. I make an effort to call them and tell them a message directly so that miscommunication won't occur. (: But because of how we abuse this improvision, we became very lazy and didn't care about whether the other party get our message correctly. If the objective of communication is to get the message correctly to the other party, then is there a loophole? Because sms-ing someone doesn't contain our tone, using msn to chat also doesn't contain our tone as well. Only voice and face-to-face communication is the most true communication. Even though miscommunication can also occur, but the chances are lower. (might be a person's communication skills or socializing skill).
what are your views about this then?
