Influence Of Technology On Human Relations

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If you are walking on the street and, suddenly, going through a group where several people say in unison "Salud!", You would need to stop a little if you wanted to know if they are making a toast, responding to someone who spoiled or making a public demonstration to demand improvements in the field of health. Certainly the tone with which he spoke would be another clue.

This is just to remember that communication is contextual. Among the communication elements, the most obvious are the transmitter, the receiver and the message. Without them, there is no communication. However, there are other elements such as context, without which the communication would be fictitious, abstract.

Context gives meaning to the message and at the same time, gives shape. It is not the same to say an "apology!" When colliding with someone unknown in the street, or friends when he did not fulfill the promise, or parents to be corrected, or the girlfriend after a fight.

The context gives the tone and direction of the message. But knot we told him everything to introduce the theme of this reflection:

What is the context of our communication in such an interconnected world?

Undoubtedly, the communication possibilities opened in recent years have led to shorter distances, so that the different approaches. In any case, some more superficial and individualistic communicative contexts have also been introduced. Some people turned anonymous in the middle of the masses. A phrase that perhaps expresses well this is the "recorded and worked".

One of the reasons in a world so connected to many people is lonely perhaps that anonymization and mass relations. The messages come out, other messages arrive, but the sender and the receiver have seen another element in the midst of the masses. One thing that is a function of one's own ends.

Basically, what is in question is to revalue the personal meeting place. The media helps, but it is necessary to meet people, and not only with anonymous people, followers in large numbers, functional interlocutors. Every time we lose sight of the person, our relationships stay on the surface and we are left more and more alone.

Certainly, technology has renewed communication channels, which offer greater accessibility. But if it causes us to move away from people, we get stuck in the context of a self-referential individualism. In addition to the difficulties and challenges presented by the new media, the key is to maintain the appearance of the person and their need for authentic relationships, against.