“Communication Less-Personal Now”

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Telephones and email have made communication between people less personal. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.
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I agree that telephones and electronic mail have made inter personal communication less personal. I believe that face to face communication is superior to electronic communication or telephonic communication. Even in this computer era, Face-to-face communication skill remains the fundamental need to one’s success. “Consistent, daily face-to-face communication promotes good feelings plus effective and collaborative teamwork.”

Face-to-face communication continues to be the most powerful human interaction. However wonderful electronic devices may be, those would never be able to replace the intimacy and immediacy of people conversing in the same office or a room. For best interaction, it is always helpful to go back to the basics and get face-to-face. Face to face communication has worked for several million of years. Majority of experts opine that the best communication occurs when a speaker and a listener are facing each other. “Eye contact, facial expressions, body language like movements, space, time, distance, appearance—all these nonverbal clues influence the way the message is interpreted and decoded by the receiver. Nevertheless some people may be e-mailing more and meeting less either due to financial and time constraints or the lack of interpersonal communication skills.

However there are many disadvantages of impersonal communication like; when masses of people are extremely upset, it is just impossible to cool down the situation from a long distance. Secondly when; people in masses are emotionally distressed, they only respond positively to personal talks and interaction and not to electrically or telephonically transmitted messages. Furthermore any situation demanding priority and involving launch of a new product or service essential for the success of the company and the employees calls for a face to face communication.

In light of the above and to summarize, Telephony and Electronic mail have turned inter-personal communication less personal.
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