I have been a people person from the
moment I could talk. In fact, since I started talking I haven’t stopped. I
communicate my ideas in so many different ways, I get lost in the jumble and
often my method for the moment isn’t appropriate. For example, when I get
excited about something and want to share a brilliant (or so I think) idea, I
say it out loud then and there. In a familiar discussion with a few close
friends, that’s fine, but in a classroom with at least twenty other people,
that’s not the best method.
I’m not shy. Never have been, probably
never will be. I want to investigate why when I say one thing one way it makes
people react way differently than when I say it another. I don’t have a very
good filter. That’s landed me in trouble many times. They’re just words. What
about words is so important to our society?
How do people communicate? How much does
what we say versus how we say it affect our actions? This is what I want to
explore about human interaction, or lack thereof. The younger people are, the
less they actually want to someone face to face. I am guilty of this myself.
When I’m in the company of others I want to be in the company of more than just
those people and I have my head buried in my phone. I want to explore the
attachment we all feel for our phones.
Social Media is a whole other monster
and allows for mass communication between people. The problem is that we’ve
started to believe that liking each other’s photos on Instagram and Facebook is
the same as actual communication. I’m not against social media, but my age
bracket especially, is reliant on scrolling through our various apps to keep up
with 1,000 people we don’t talk to anyway. Social media has even made its way
into the actual news. Not even the nightly news is immune from the comment
section.
What platforms are used to communicate?
Exploring TV, Radio, Websites, and Local Posters is an amazing way to get at
the psychology behind what is eye grabbing. It gets at why people click on a
link or stay on any given channel.
These are all topics I want to explore
over the next school year. I want to know about communication and how I can get
better at it. I should especially know this if I’m going to pursue
communications as a career in the future.
