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= Technological Communication =

Technology has become a part of our everyday lives, whether we realize it or not, and has changed the way we communicate. Technology has slowly been innovating into our lives ever since the introduction of the phone, then computers, handheld phones and so on and so forth. Whether we are on Facebook scrolling through our feed, liking pictures on Instagram, sending selfies on Snapchat, or out here rambling and tweeting away on Twitter, we have endless avenues to communicate. Once you get to school, you’re learning on technology, the cars we drive are installed with the newest technology, the restaurants we eat at are ran with the newest technology, it’s all around us whether we like it or not.

Positives of Technology and Communicating
When it comes to technology and communication, it fuels good and bad. The positives of technology and communication can go on and on. Technology allows us to communicate with one another when are not together, lets us update our friends and family on various forms of social media on how we are doing from just a small perspective. If you want to branch it out, technology can allow us to do things such as banking online, paying for purchases online, access dates online, and even can let you send out mass communication messages to simplify your messaging system. Some of the outside the box benefits go even further into social anxiety. People with social anxiety can stay connected with friends and not have to worry about social interactions as often by going online with their communicative interactions.

Negatives of Technological Communication
On the flip side, technology has some negatives that it carries as well. The amount of social interaction and nonverbal communication we get every day is decreased by technology. Cell phones and technology in general can end up being huge distractions, which can lead to events such as text and driving, distraction in the classroom, or a distraction at work. Technology can affect the mental state of an individual if they receive a lot of negative reinforcement, or essentially bullying. One of the dark sides of the internet is the ability is gives you to hide behind a screen and remain anonymous for as long as you please and choose, which means you may cause as many problems as you want and bring down people mentally and emotionally without ever having to give up your identity. One other negative effect is that it is a lot easier to lose your personal and private information with everything going online than it was before. One leak of a password to any accounts of any type can lead to potentially all of your accounts being at risk of being hacked and can lead to closures of emails and accounts. Communication and technology are slowly following a pattern of becoming more and more closely linked as we become more and more tech savvy every year. Communication started as an in-person situation with verbal communication being the only relative form you could get day in and day out. Slowly, we saw the landline phone, which slowly turned into the wireless phone, on to the multitudes of phones and laptops and advancements of technology that we have today. Moving forward, technology is showing no signs of slowing down. From virtual reality, allowing you to throw on a headset and get a simulated game experience as if you’re there, to moving towards faster internet speeds every year to boost download and internet times so that we never have to wait. All things considered, the way we as humans and individuals communicate everyday will probably change as well as we get closer to the future.

Email and Text
Another facet of online communication is the through the ability to use functions such as email and texting in general. Emails have given the workplace a much easier style of communication and have taken out the hassle of having to send mass messages to employees. The development of emails has also changed the collegiate background, as meetings with professors can now be set up much easier if need be, or communication with faculty or students in general can be done in mere minutes without physical contact with one another. This is especially important when thinking about the times we live in now; with apps such as zoom and facetime during the middle of a global pandemic. When it comes to texting, apps such as KIK and Whats app are designed to give you a whole different experience outside of the normal texting feature on the phone. These apps allow you to meet random strangers online (if you choose) and strike up a conversation. The normal texting system already allows you to communicate with those you know or those whose number you have, but you now have the ability to talk to genuinely anyone you can meet online. Physical social interaction over time will take a hit because of this

Technological Advances
Technology has taken a form of its own when it comes to social media. You can access any apps from anywhere as long as you have internet access, which cell phone and satellite towers are now expanding across all corners of the country with a broader range. With the addition of features such as hotspot and Bluetooth, you can no communicate with technology practically anywhere. Bluetooth allows you to syn a device to any device that has a speaker of some sorts and allows you to speak through that same speaker you hooked up too. Now we can hook up to our cars and talk on the phone and drive all at the same time, which could never have been done a mere 20 years ago. Hotspot allows you to access any data you may have when you don’t have WIFI service, and share it with anyone around you until it runs out or may be used solely for yourself.

Communication and Pandemic
Online Communication has the chance to continue to increase as well with the current situation. The pandemic has forced more shopping and more classes and more schools online, so teachers and students almost have no option but to go fully online. With schools still not reopening and many of them going online for the second semester as well, options such as facetime and zoom will continue to be popular avenues of communication online.