Love/Hate
I use MSN almost daily. I like it –most of the time. It has been a wonderful tool for staying in contact with friends and family. But it is not perfect, I need to again state my issues with it (even if its just for myself). My "hatred" is more a deep frustration with the communication flaws it allows or encourages:
-Good communication is more then just words. Its signs, gestures, voice tone, inflection. How many different ways can you say "great"? Something is always lost in typed messages, which is a head start of misunderstandings.
-Crash course in compartmentalizing. Thinking of the times when there are three or more conversations on the go. Your jumping back and forth in talks on a wide range of topic. One is high hearted joking, another personal relationships, another resent event, and still another about God and spiritual thoughts. It can be emotionally confusing.
-So easy to ignore people. So easy not to listen. We are distracted and multitasking. It is allowing selfishness.
-I can say almost anything on MSN to almost anyone. I don’t think I’m alone in that trait. Can create a few different problems the biggest being. We have false sense of intimacy and it teaches us to be impersonal by just talk to "the computer".
-Seems you only have two options on MSN a very short conversation that doesn’t go past how are you or something deep. There doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. Which is sad when you just want to hang out. I miss just hanging out with good friends doing stuff like euchre, watching movies, or going for coffee just being together.
MSN is no substitute for real people.
-Good communication is more then just words. Its signs, gestures, voice tone, inflection. How many different ways can you say "great"? Something is always lost in typed messages, which is a head start of misunderstandings.
-Crash course in compartmentalizing. Thinking of the times when there are three or more conversations on the go. Your jumping back and forth in talks on a wide range of topic. One is high hearted joking, another personal relationships, another resent event, and still another about God and spiritual thoughts. It can be emotionally confusing.
-So easy to ignore people. So easy not to listen. We are distracted and multitasking. It is allowing selfishness.
-I can say almost anything on MSN to almost anyone. I don’t think I’m alone in that trait. Can create a few different problems the biggest being. We have false sense of intimacy and it teaches us to be impersonal by just talk to "the computer".
-Seems you only have two options on MSN a very short conversation that doesn’t go past how are you or something deep. There doesn’t seem to be a middle ground. Which is sad when you just want to hang out. I miss just hanging out with good friends doing stuff like euchre, watching movies, or going for coffee just being together.
MSN is no substitute for real people.
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