Digital Communication

The use of digital communication, in my opinion, is being used more today than ever.  I know that for me and my friends text messaging and Facebook are our biggest outlet on communication with one another.  Some even Skype or just video chat with one another to keep in touch at a more personal level. Although my friends and I use these to contact each other, many business's use video chats to be able to contact other business's to have meetings. This has cut spending and costs of travel because we don't have to go all  across the country or the world to see someone face to face anymore. Working and socializing through digital communication has helped and harmed the world we live in today.  It's helped with costs (as i mentioned before), ability to communicate with people you would have never been able to communicate without it, and keeps people in contact with one another more easily than ever before.  Its also made some people very socially awkward when it comes to talking to people in person.  This is because its much easier to talk behind the words you type or behind a screen/ camera than it is to keep a conversation with a person face to face. Making some people so used to talking through technology that they almost forget how to talk to someone in person. All in all there are some amazing things that digital communication offers but at the same time we have to make sure we don't replace this type of communication with real in person communication.

-Kirsten