Electronic Communication

How do you feel about electronic communication? I find that it can be used with an honorable or fiendish intent. Sometimes it seems as if the lines blur. Pursing Facebook earlier I noted several couples using it to air their dirty relationship laundry. Why are people using social networks to fight? Its suppose to bring people together not drive them apart. While expressing yourself and writing down exactly what is bothering you is commendable does everyone of your three hundred Facebook friends need to know about it? No, no they don't. What happened to genuine face to face conversations? I don't know about you but it seems as if now a days I hardly ever have conversations with people in person or over the phone. I am not talking about distant cousins or anything like that. I speak of your best friend, your mom, sister, etc. Take a minute and think (go ahead, I'll wait), when was the last time you actually CALLED somebody? So much is lost when having a conversation over the internet or via text message. Its hard to convey tone, body language, and facial expressions. All of these elements are much needed aspects of communication yet more and more people rely on electronic communication to speak to people just in the next room. Emoticons will not solve every miscommunication that you encounter. It seems as if relying on social networking, faxing, cell phones, email and what not creates more problems then they solve. The next time that you feel like speaking to your mom, best friend or sibling actually pick up a phone and call them or better yet make a lunch date and just bask in their presence for a while. The personal interaction will feel great. Your communication will be of higher quality, and instead of seeing a smiley face on a screen you can hear the smile in their voice instead.