Blog post #5

The topic that I I'm interested in exploring in my research essay is the idea of technology’s improvement on our ability to communicate. I’ve heard time and time again how technology is weakening our ability to communicate, how it’s hurting our social skills. When I think of the topic of communication in relation to technology I think of how, technology has given us the ability to speak to, face to face, with people half around the world. How technology has granted us the possibilities of meeting and interacting with people we would once have never been able to meet. I believe that there are people who are naturally reclusive when it came to being social, but yet again there are also people who are social butterflies, and thrive on social interaction. Both types of people can be given the option of facial interaction or textual interaction through texting or any other technological outlet. Depending on who the person is he or she chooses their outlet of social expression. This does not mean that technology is to blame for some people’s inability or want to socialize face to face or verbally, it just means that technology has given those who may have once spent more time isolated in their room playing card games or doing a more isolated task, the opportunity to indulge in a new form of entertainment.