Online Communication

As our society continues to shift into a new digital era, we will most assuredly see more and more ways to communicate with others through means of the internet.  And while we do this remains unknown, other than the fact that we as people, are lazy and demand to have everything as convienent to us as possible.  However in doing this, we completely cut out an important part of our lives.  Not only can we as individuals be misunderstood through online communication, we can also be limited by perceptions of others.  We limit ourselves by creating an online personna and letting people make their assumptions of who we actually are.  This completely ruins the idea of communication.  

Simply stated, online communication misses important parts of communication, including non verbals and also active listening.  This reduces our ability to become active and good communicators.  We believe that by making things more convienent for us, that we help us be better communicators, but really we are only hurting our abiility to understand how people operate through communication.