My thirty day experiment was no Face Book for thirty days, and there were no exceptions. I wanted to do this because, for me Face Book has been away to communicate with old friends and maybe family members I have not seen in a while. However the social issue I want to find out is; how people’s communication skills can be better or worse without the use of Face Book. This has taught me a lot of different things in different ways. The first is communication. Face Book is away to communicate with people, without doing any verbal talking. I have learned that writing on Face Book is not the same as talking. It is better for me to talk because it is hard for me to express my feelings on paper, so talking about my feeling is a lot of easier and saves time.
While in the process of my thirty day challenge, I interview some people about the communication on Face Book, she said that her verbal communication was not as strong while she was on Face Book. However she stopped using Face Book, for longer than thirty days, and now she communicated just fine, verbally. I have learned that Face Book traps people in a way, because you are not to be as social and you would not be allowed to have the skills you would need for the world. When I mean “the world” I mean corporate America. I did this because no matter what we do as a profession, we have to communicate. What I am trying to stress is, if you go to a job interview the first thing they are going to see is your appearance. Okay whatever you might have passed, but when you talk and it is not up to the standards they expect for you. Then you will most likely not get any good job, which pays well unless there are some other talents that you have. I have also learned, that spelling was a personally issue for me. When I write my papers for class I use a lot of the “IM” talk because that is what I am used to using on Face Book. However before printing out my essays I would have to re-write and spell out the whole word, and not shorten it. I can now write an essay without shortening the words; I even talk with the shortenings, unless I am cussing.
I have also learned, which was not supposed to be a part of the challenge, that Face Book is a way to help me procrastinate. I go on it too much threw out the day, and it takes a lot of my time, or it waste a lot of my time. When I could not get onto Face Book, I filled that procrastination time with going on to gossip sites. Some of the gossip sites included, www.bossip.com and www.people.com, also some personalized celebrity sites. I would get on them less than I would Face Book, but more than once a day. You could be on Face Book for about 15 minutes and not know it. I also learned, I really do not need Face Book the only people I talk to on Face Book are my family members that I do not want to talk to over the phone, because they are weird. I talk to my younger sister because we are not allowed to talk to her verbally; well we are not supposed to talk to her at all. Then I might talk to some old friends, but that is only once a month. Everybody I need to talk to, I call them. I think I would rather call them because on Face Book it could be a fraud and there could be some miscommunication.
I am applying to the society and my communities that we should use are verbal communication skills. We need to hold on to those skills because we use them all the time. We need those social relationships; wouldn’t it be weird if we could only talk to our co-workers or friends only on social networking site? It would be awkward if we some them, in the real world. Verbal communication is such a power full way to communicate, this is the only real way we can communicate.
