linear and non-linear communication

Communication in a linear form can prove to be difficult.  One sentence can be interpreted differently depending on punctuation!  A Normal sentence turns into a statement just from adding an exclamation mark, capital letters and so on.  I have been a participant in feuds over what was meant by a statement and how it was interpreted.  Although I am a big fan of Msn, Facebook and ICQ, I still favour phone conversations because you can hear intonations in people’s voices.  Both phone and online communication allow time for questioning statements if you are confused about what someone said but I find that there is less confusion when talking to someone in person and over the phone.

I think people can get a lot more out of non-linear forms of communication.  I am the type of person who gets tired of starring at a computer screen or television screen for a long period of time.  I need to spend most of my time in the ‘real’ world, with actual people rather than talking to someone on the other end of the computer.  I enjoy face to face communication.  I love being outside and enjoying walks no matter what the destination might be.  I don’t know how an individual can learn life skills by looking at a computer screen.  Yes, they learn technical skills but it does not correlate and help sociability skills. 

My sister is a chemistry major and it seems that although she can communicate at a level that the rest of the family can understand and relate to, there is a communication barrier when she talks about her studies.  The same rings true for doctors.  They have had a high level of education and can talk to their co-workers in a high intellect, but when they are communicating what an operation might entail, they need to be able to describe the procedure in Laymen’s terms.  I think that computers and technology should not rule someone’s life.  Life needs to be experienced with real situations in a non-linear form.