The Effects of New Communication by Deyang Zou

Deyang Zou

Essay #1: Cause & Effect

Septembre 23, 2013

Inst. Vickie Mellos

 The Effects of New Communication

     Can you think about our life without phones and Internet? In the past, if someone wants to have a talk with people who live far away from him or her, the only way is to send mails. That would take a really long time, and you would never know if the mail was eaten by a dog or was thrown into the lake, but everything changed now. We have cellphones and computers, and we can talk to anyone we want with so many different ways. The Internet and cellphones make people have a really fast and cheap way to connect with others. Even through new written communication is really convenient, I still think there are some problems with it: it is bad for people’s health, it is bad for people’s talking skills, and all the new ways may put the airplane in danger sometime.

     The first result from increasing written communication is that people’s health becomes worse than in the past. During the last 15 years, people have more and more problems with muscles and bones, and the number of this group people increased about 400%, and most of the increased percent are based on computers and cellphones. In my mind, Chinese students spend less than 1 hour in sending e-mails and messages, but in 2012, for me and my friends or my classmates, the times have an explosive growth: as some researches show that more students spend 2-4 hours every day in sending e-mails and messages, and even two times in the weekends. The hospital noticed that people have more problems with their fingers and cervical vertebra, and they believe it has a strong relation with the new written communication methods.

     The second effect, of people spending lots of time in written communication, is we lose our speaking skills day by day. That means maybe in the future, we can write as a author, but speak like a recorder voice. Actually, it happens now. I know an internet writer; she is my high school classmate. She can write very beautiful sentences and an amazing essay. Also, she likes creating new messages and then sends to us, and usually the messages are very fun and interesting. If you just talk to her by emails and messages, you may think that she is a sun-girl, but as a classmate, we know that she is really afraid to talk to others face to face. In fact, in our mind we think that she is very shy and quiet. We used to try to help her speak more, but unfortunately we failed. Written communication should have a modest effect for our life, but it cannot be our whole life.

     The increasing use of written communication just has negative effects not only for people, but also for other things like the airplane. When you send an email or message to your friends in the airplane that means you send airwaves. As we know, airwaves will disturb the airplane’s normal communication with the airport control center; it may make the airplane in danger. So when airplanes start flying, they always ask people turn off their electronic devices.

     In short, written communication gives us a fast and cheap way to connect, but it still has lots of negative effects in our life. If we control how and when we use it, it is really a good thing for human’s development, but if we spend lots of time and energy on written communication, it will be terrible things for people’s health, and bad for our talking skills. Also, it will put the airplane or other things in danger. As we know, the most important reason that human is stronger than other animals is we have a complete speaking system, so we cannot lose the speaking skills. Let us have a talking and writing life!

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