It has almost been a month since I left home to begin my college career. My mother, who recently learned to text, and I have been communicating to one another, texting back and forth on a regular basis. Almost 150 miles apart, my mother and I are communicating to one another more than we did when we were face to face when I was home. Texting, emailing, skyping, blogging, and twittering have made it easier for people to communicate despite the distances that separate one another. You can text anytime, during class, during a movie, with ease and little disruption. For these reasons texting has become a main method of communication between people.
With these new forms of communication becoming more and more popular, widespread, and frequent, will relationships between people change with the technology?
I can already attest that my relationship with my family is stronger now since I communicate with them more often using Skype, Facebook, and texting. Parties and social get togethers are easier to plan and find out about since an event page can be created on Facebook for everyone to see, or a quick e-vite can be sent out. In 50 years from now, will we still be texting or typing? Will we still be blogging and skyping? Technology shapes and defines the way humans interact with one another.The future of relationships does not rests in our hands but in the hands of technology.
-VG
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