Different types of communication
Verbal
Verbal communication is one that has being around since the start of human race. Its how we talk to other people in life, its how we learn, love, live and teach. Without verbal communication there would not be the evolution of other communications in the first place. Without verbal language there would be no written language available to use in online conversations. The English language or any other language would not exist.
The worry in today’s society is that verbal communication skills are lessening and people are finding it easier and more comfortable to communicate digitally. Someone who has already developed social skills and is in the line of business using both verbal and digital communication would be happy with this change but a developing child using technology, rather than playing with other children, means their social skills weaken and this will cause problems in later life. The worry being that eventually when the generations that can do both are extinct, the rest of the population will settle for this idea of only using digital communication and the world will unrecognisable.
digital
This in today’s society goes alongside the ‘emoji hype’ and actually is the key platform it was created on and continues to go on. The huge impact of technology and social media on us has meant that the amount of online communication by conversations via instant message and mobile texting has rapidly increased in the past 3 years.
The big debate is about how we are becoming too interested in our phone and not interacting with each other verbally face to face. Instead we prefer to text, it’s easier quicker and less effort we say? It’s also damaging our social skills and in generations to come the problem will only continue to grow.
However some people believe this revolution is good for us. It’s speeding our world up and connecting us internationally in seconds, allowing us to share more of our private life’s online. Making advertising easier and more directional towards us, making more money
All in all there are two ways you can think of digital communication but it defiantly causes debate for whether the majority of communication being digital is a bad or a good thing.
Music
This may be a form of communication that is by passed quickly, if even thought of at all.
Music and lyrics is actually a really important means of communication, it’s just a more creative way of doing it. All songs have messages, they have stories and most artists write about their own experiences usually resulting in the song being to someone, about someone or for someone.
When people listen to music, even if their singing the lyrics they don’t actually think about what the lyrics mean or the message they are trying to portray. Instead it’s a good song to sing at 3 am in a night club, drunk. Even the loudest, bass driven songs have conversation hidden amongst them.
Emoji's
In the 21st century emoticons are used more than ever, they were released 5 years ago in October of 2010, at first people were cautious of using them. The faces and emoticons represented certain things and people were un sure on how to use them, it took a few years for the younger generation to start using them and then came the older generations hooking onto the craze. They are so popular now people can have a conversation just using emoticons with no text to contextualize the meaning of the symbols. They are so well known around the online platform we just have to see an emoji to know what it represents.
So much its even started to be used in advertising, McDonalds used emoticons and only emoticons to spell out a message in one of their latest advertising campaigns. In todays society this kind of up to date technique will appeal to people and get them talking, therefore getting them craving a McDonalds and making the marketing technique work.
Signs
Signs are a more traditional way of communicating to people, but these kind of signs speak to people on a mass scale, rather than an emoji being directed at someone in a one on one online or text conversation, signs are placed to give everyone who passes it a message, an instruction or a warning.
These types of signs have been around for years, there are many places you find these kinds of signs, all public places for example, tube stations, pubs, restaurants, theaters, shops and road signs. Warning signs may be seen in labs and high-risk places.
Although this may not seem like a way of conversation, but there actually similar to emoticons, just more traditional. It would be very easy to create a visual conversation with these signs because of the vast variety there is. The signs are universal; they are used internationally meaning that this can break the language barrier, something that emoticons also do. Maybe were missing a trick here and this could be a way of breaking language barriers in a multi-cultural society.
