In the year 2020, COVID-19 had made drastic changes in people’s lives all over the world. For instance, these changes might include how it impacted a person’s employment/work situation, social life, and people’s migration patterns. With these changes that are going on, people are less interactive with each other besides the fact that there are electronic devices people can communicate to one another. My daily migration patterns have gone down since March when the shut down started. The benefits of my daily migration pattern going down is that it’s keeping me safe from the potential of contracting the virus. The disadvantages of my migration patterns going down is that my social interactions have also gone down which is bad because the part of improving on my social skills is to interact with as many people as I can, so I can relate to people more on an interpersonal level. A new pattern that has emerged by staying at home is that my time spent being on the internet have gone way up. More specifically, I’ve spent more time watching YouTube videos than any other social media platform. As far as my the skills I have developed, I feel that my cooking skills have increased. There were days where my mother wouldn’t cook me breakfast due to me taking initiative on cooking for myself. Being restricted to digital interactions with friends, family and classmates have caused challenges is that communicating digitally lacks richness most of the time. Even if that means communicating through a web cam also lacks richness because technical difficulties may occur which can disrupt the flow of a conversation and the message may not be received thoroughly in the recipient’s mind. To overcome this, there should be at least one day out of the week where people should speak to each other in-person, so that way the communication between the two or more of those people can communicate effectively.
Questions:
Does having technology make communication any more effective?
Will re-adjusting to social crowds be a problem for some people?
Grade: 3.9/5
Nomar: This comment stuck out to me: “communicating digitally lacks richness most of the time” — I feel this too, and have struggled to articulate exactly what is lacking in these interactions.