It seems like everyone in the world has used email, but is it the best way to communicate? This week’s article looks at how we have changed and how other types of communication services are likely to change the way that we communicate. Go to the link below and read the article. Write a reflective comment that shows you have read the article, expresses your views, and addresses my questions.
The article talks about how the new services make our interactions faster. How long do you expect a text message to take to get to a friend? As the services make communication easier, the messages are becoming more frequent. How is this affecting the quality of what you write? Is your writing less personal? How will filtering affect communication? Do you use filters? Is having a more public profile something that is good or bad? Explain why. Respond to the following quotation: “You can argue that because we have more ways to send more messages, we spend more time doing it. That may make us more productive, but it may not.”
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After reading this article, I think I expect a text message to take 4 seconds to reach a friend, or the person who will be receiving the text message. Since we have more than one way to communicate with each other, in a faster and easier way, I think our amount of writing would be much more less than it was before where we used to send e-mails to one another. I think it's because, for example, Facebook. Facebook has all your questions answered, without even asking them in the first place. You have their status's on their profile, if you want to know what your friend did in her holiday to Hawaii, there are pictures and links. If you want to see people you haven't seen since your graduation you can just search their names on the Facebook box. So before writing a bunch of letters, and paragraphs. You can check their profile first, and there you go. Your questions are answered. My filtering, and whether my writing is personal, in my opinion, yes it would be much less personal. And, filtering would be also a much better issue than it is these days. I think putting more personal stuff on your Facebook profile, good and bad. (example), is totally fine because, the only people that can see these personal issue's is your really close friends on Facebook. In fact, you can change with the settings and chose who may, or may not see your personal information that is posted on Facebook. But think about it, why would you post something personal in the first place if you don't want any of your friends to see it?
-Sarah✸
and don't copy me Areen(:
-I think it takes very few seconds and it’s there ready for the receiver to get the information from the sender. This probably affects your spelling or even your word choice, because as you are writing something like “I will meet you at the mall, I will be glad to see you” in instant messaging you would a whole new different thing and which would look like “u be at mall, cya bi” My writing is definitely less personal when messaging. Filtering will affect communication in a way because it makes us much more dependent on the technology of communication, so if you don’t have technology for communication your life would be over. No, I never used filtering. Having a more public profile is not just bad, it is highly dangerous, because imagine anyone viewing your pictures with your family and private information which thieves, could use as identity theft from the amount of basic information on your profile. The following quotation: “You can argue that because we have more ways to send more messages, we spend more time doing it. That may make us more productive, but it may not.” This quote is not true at all, because I only stick with two ways of messaging, email and cellular messaging. And it doesn’t make us more productive; tell me how it could make us more productive? It’s just typing its very bas because as I said before it decreases our punctuation, and grammar, oh please.
I expect a text message to get to a friend in a about 3-5 seconds, if they are in the same country as me. As messages become more frequent I tend to write less and less personally. Still after reading that article i don't really understand what 'filtering' is. Having a public profile to me is good. You can update everyone at the same time (which saves time). If you don't want certain people knowing things then a) don't add them or b) change your privacy settings to block them from it. I think that now that we do have more ways to send messages we do spend more time doing it and it doesn't make us more productive because we are spending time putting useless information out to the public that most people really don't care about.
Well basically it only takes about 3-5 seconds for an SMS to send but i'm not much of a "texter" so I don't really care about the delay. With all the new types of programs we use today it is way easier and way more user friendly than in the old days. Like when you want to send info on your holiday tip to Austria you don't have to chain mail to everyone you just go to your blog, to Facebook, to twitter, or some other website and type that your vacation was awesome and you met a lot of new people and you went skiing and then press a button and voila all people you know have the message. Filtering is not really much of an issue because what you usually write on your Facebook status or your message on twitter is not personal it's probably more like "Karim is enjoying himself and drinking a milkshake". You aren't going to write on your status something like "OH MY GOD!!11 I HATE BOB HE IS REALLY STUPID" because that is a bit too personal and awkward to write as a status. but if you do write these types of messages it is really easy to only let some people you want to see the message actually be able to read it with filtering.
I expect a text message to come through in less than a minute, or else I might think something is wrong with the network. I think as are messages become more frequent the quality of our messages decrease. No I do not think it making my writing less personal. If I am texting no but if I am on Facebook them I am a little more careful on what I put on. I think filtering will affect communication by letting people not say what is on their mind truly, causing them to hide what they really feel because they know half the world is watching. Having a more public profile is a bad thing because anybody can access things that would be personal to you or something you would only reveal to friends. Responding to the quote my opinion is that, sure now we will spend more time communicating but why is it such a bad thing? As for being more productive it’s based on how smart you are. If for example you are you have a lot of homework you would not spend a lot of time sending messages. Which why I think this quote is very judgmental.
When I send a text message, I expect it to arrive to a person I am sending it to, in a few seconds, or even in a minute. Although I write more frequentelly, I am trying to keep my messages very short and concise. If I have something more to say to a person, I usually don't write messages, I just talk to the person. My writing is now less personal, because I am trying only to arrange for a meeting or to say few words, but I do not send messages with personal issues. I think filtering is a good way if you want to choose to see updates only from certain people you add to certain lists. I personaly haven't been using filters. Having a public profile is good, but it may also have some negative sides... If I have to respond to the quotation, I can only say that we should limit the time we are spending on the internet, and instead of that, we should meet them in person!
Text Messages: I don't really text at all, so this doesn't particularly matter to me. So what if it takes 4 seconds or 30 seconds? The person will still have to take out their phone and write back, so what's the big deal? Do 26 seconds of your life really matter that much? And if you just sit there waiting for the person to write back, then you don't have one, so it shouldn't matter.
Writing: Of course writing is become less personal. Instead of writing like a Homo Sapien, people write in the type of messages people use to communicate to space shuttle in.
E.G
-Normal Human: Hey, how are you? It's pretty good here, and on Saturday I got a new cat!
-Typical Teenager: sup?, im doin fine n on sat i gt a nw cat
Communication: [I have no idea what you are asking]
[Quote]: I agree with this quote. When people go on Facebook or Twitter or whatever new crap there is, there is no such thing as just "Checking my Facebook"; they always have to reply, comment, take stupid quizzes, add apps, etc. and there is no end to it.
After reading the article, I think it depends on the Internet speed. If it is fast, I expect a text message to take about 1 minute to reach a friend or the receiver. But if the Internet speed is slow, I expect maybe the worst, about 10 minutes. I think our amount of writing would be much more longer because we used to do e-mails which you don't know when the reply will come. But for example, Messenger or Facebook, you can get a direct reply. Your writing gets more personal because you express your thoughts more if you are talking to them like if you are facing them. Filtering would be a much better issue than it is these days because it makes us depend more on technology. Having a more public profile is something that is good. For example, you update your picture of your families to let your friends have a look. Nobody can do anything about it because only your friends can see it. The quotation: “You can argue that because we have more ways to send more messages, we spend more time doing it. That may make us more productive, but it may not.” I disagree with this article because when we type to our friends, we discover mistakes and fix them which makes our writing better.
When i read the article i thought that the time it would depend on the current location and connection of your phone for the text message to send. The services making messages more frequent make your writing less private, which leaves you with less options to talk about. Your writing becomes less personal. But on the other hand your messages could be more personal since there are more messages and for the providers more things to check, so they cant check all the messages which makes everything more private. Filtering limits the words you may use which will change teenage communication greatly and will filter any bad words which will change the mood of the writing. I do not use filters since i like to express opinion. Having a more public profile could be good or bad. It is good because you make new friends and you can see new people. But on the other hand you provide people with your personal information, you give away your name and family, people can see your friends. The emails and messages that we send from people to people reduce our punctuation skill and reduce our spelling skill but it helps us type faster and gin more typing experience. :D Jan Kuttab A+ please!!!!
I expect a text message to get to a friend within a couple of seconds. As messages become more frequent, the quality of your writing becomes worse and less important. Your writing becomes less personal because it is shared with hundreds of people. Filtering helps eliminate the unimportant excess information you don’t want. I use filters when I want to see something specific, for example the latest Halloween photos from a group of friends. Having a more public profile has its good and bad sides. Its good that you can have a larger group of friends or people you know that you can share things with simultaneously, but its bad that you can’t be as personal and honest with the people you want to because everyone can see it. You have to watch your privacy carefully so that information doesn’t get into the wrong hands. The quotation brings forth a very good point. I don’t think that having more ways to send more messages makes us more productive. It just makes us completely dependant of being updated every second on mostly irrelevant things.
I generally expect a text to reach its destination within a few seconds. As the article states, the frequency of messages results in them being rushed and impersonal. I myself often send texts with abbreviations and other informalities. Although I am capable of writing quite engaging stories and essays, I do not spend much time on text messages because all I am trying to do is get the point across. Thus, my writing becomes less personal when I text, and its quality suffers. Filtering will affect communication by allowing people to prioritize. They can decide what kinds of messages they would like to see immediately, what messages they can view later, and what messages they feel no need to read at all. I filter my emails into seperate folders: the main inbox, SAT Questions of the Day, and Facebook. Because I know that the latter two folders do not contain urgent messages, filtering saves me time. I view more public profiles as "bad". Why share your personal information with anyone other than your friends? This is like handing your important documents to a complete stranger. It is great that different methods of sending messages have been developed to make our lives more convenient, but I think that people spend too much time communicating via technological devices and not enough time talking to one another in person. I don't know about other people, but I like to see the face of the person who I am communicating with.
I guess it takes about few second for a text message to take to get to a friend. If messages become more frequent, the quality of our writing become worse and become insignificant. Writings will be less personal because we get to share our message with many people.Filtering is very useful because, filtering helps to not show insignificant excess information that I don't need. I do use filters when I'm trying to get some photos of certain subjects; like pictures I took when I visited Syria. Having a more public profile is very bad because when you upload a picture, everyone can can see that picture. I agree with the quotation. Just by having more messages doesn't mean that it will makes us more productive.
I would expect that it would take about five seconds for a text message to reach a friend. Since messages have become more frequent, it affects the quality of what we write less personal because we talk about everyday topics that are not as personal as emails. I don't really know what filtering really is but I think that it would affect communication because we become more dependent on the technology so if there is none we will be in jeopardy. There would be no use of talking. I do use filters because in that way it would help me connect with my friends much more. I think that having a more public profile has its pros and cons depending on what the person puts on their profiles. My response to the quote is that messaging can take time up but at the same time you can get closer relationships and in that way we would want to talk more.
-Rachel
I expect a message to get to a friend momentarily after I send it. Sometime when my friends and I are texting I will get the reply to my text in the same minute I send it. Quick communication like this changes the way we write and the way we interact with each other. Eventually the old habits of our proper English are replaced by the new habits of the text or chatting English. I still do not see the use of filtering items. When filtering things we want shown may not be shown and this is not a good thing. If I write something then I mean for it to be shown. If I do not write something then it is personal. Facebook is and outlook of many things that we want to be seen and that is why it is called a “public network.” Now with all these networks of quick communication I am always talking to somebody 24/7 this is because I have so much to do and it only takes seconds out of my time to tell a friend how much I “FML or any of the new updates.”
I would expect a text message to take about 5 seconds to get to a friend. I think that because the messaging is becoming more frequent people do more spelling mistakes in their messages. They don’t think much before they send a message and they make up words and abbreviations to make it go faster to text. I also think that the writing can get less personal because you only write short versions of what you want to say. I think that filtering is a good thing because I know how annoying it can be to get commercials and other things sent to your email. I don’t use filtering but maybe I should. I’ve almost stopped reading my email because there’s so much uninteresting stuff in my inbox and that makes it tiring to check the important emails. I think that the quote: “You can argue that because we have more ways to send more messages, we spend more time doing it. That may make us more productive, but it may not”, makes sense because even though having more ways of messaging can save time for us, it may also take our time because we use more of our time on sending messages, emailing, checking or facebook profile, ect.
-Idunn
I would say that a text message after reading this article would take about 3-5 seconds. Since messaging have became more frequent, it affects the quality of the writing and the style that we write; your text would become less personal because you are sharing it with many people. Filtering affects communication by removing all the useless information you don’t want in your text. I use filters when I want to focus on one subject more careful than the others. Having a more public profile is good and bad. The bad part is if someone you don’t want or don’t know is on your profile he can get information about you and can be dangerous. The good part is that you can share the latest news with your friends and share information with the people you trust. I think this quote is wrong because most people from what I see only use texting on cell phones and email, and it can’t make us more productive because we are just typing really quick to get the information out so the grammar and punctuation decrease.
Text messages usually don't send automatically, and I think it takes between 10 to 15 seconds to send because it has to first be sent out of the mobile, and then received by the other mobile. The quality of the things we write is different because we don't use full sentences or even full words, we just abbreviate everything to make things quicker and easier. The writing is also less personal because it's easier to talk about feelings and things that are happening in person than by some other way. Filtering is important to narrow down important things, and leave out non important things. I use filtering on facebook so I don't get random span notifications from applications or people I don't know. Having a public profile is bad because then anyone can see things on it, and you have no privacy. I agree with the quote " You can argue that because we have more ways to send more messages, we spend more time doing it. That may make us more productive, but it may not." because even though people are sending more messages, that doesn't exactly make the human race more advanced.
I expect a text message to get to a friend in a about 4-5seconds, if they are in the same region as me.As messages become more frequent I tend to write less and less personally. Still after reading that article i don't really understand what 'filtering' is. Having a public profile to me is good. you can message a person and send to other people and save way more time rather then texting 8 other people with the same message . If you don't want certain people knowing things then a) don't add them or b) change your privacy settings to block them from it. I think that now that we do have more ways to send messages we do spend more time doing it and it doesn't make us more productive because we are spending time putting useless information out to the public that most people really dont mind.
I think a text message takes 3 min. to reach a friend. Yes, the communication is easier now, and the messages are becoming more frequent. I don’t feel that my writing is less personal, but when you think about it, it actually is
Filtering makes us more dependent, and that is a good thing
No, I don’t use filters
Having more public profiles is dangerous and bad, because then you wouldn’t have privacy
No, its not good, I think that two emails are enough
If i sent a text message, i would expect it would reach the receiver in a matter of seconds. The quality of what we write is being reduced due to us always being in a hurry with instant messaging. My writing is less personal because I know how fast the messaging is, therefore, I always rush with my writing. Instead of thinking about spelling and punctuation, I just say things like "hi how r u?" And I use a lot of abbreviations to speed up the typing process. Filtering can make communication go slower, especially on a website like facebook, because it is filtering so many messages, but I still use filters. I don't think that having a very public profile is a very good idea because there are a lot of creeps who can do nasty things with that kind of information. It is extremely true that now we have many more means of communication, we use it a lot more. In most cases, especially for this generation of kids, we have adapted to this, and grown up with it, therefore we can multi task by for example, checking our facebook, and watching a movie, or whatever.
I think that a text mssage is better for a journey and to reach you priend faster, but it is limited to the words. A e-mail can have attachments and a lot more text, but it is almost impossibnle to always check your e-mail, but your phone is always with you. Having a public profile is not to good i think because many people can access it and abuse it to make you seem negative or defensive. I think the quote does not fit very good because if we want to send a message in different ways, we might spend a lot of time with it, but it is maybe 2 or 3 minuits. And if you post something on the web, you should know that many people, even those who you do not know, will view your pictures and private information
O.K. why would someone post personal information that they don't want people to see in the first place? I think if someone wants to put something on facebook they should think about what they're writting first because sometimes when you write stuff, you can't erase it or take it back. Also you have to think about who might read it whether it's your parents or a teacher or just another kid because what you write might be hurtful or offensive to them, or it could just get you in trouble.
A thing a text message takes about 20 seconds to get to a friend. I still write personally to people, depending on whom I’m writing to. I still write normally, nothing really has change is the way I write. Filtering will help you organize what you want to read and what you want to be deleted automatically. I use two filters, the first is my Facebook filter and the second is my junk filter. Having a public profile is bad because there are some things you don’t want people to see, on the other hand you can just not put the information on your profile. I think that the person is right, because you can use communication for efficient reasons that will help you, or just for fun which is counter-productive.
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