Is Modern Communication Actually That Convenient or Effective?
Posted on March 18, 2009 in Life of Adam | 2 Comments So perhaps today I shall start sounding like a grumpy old man yearning for a time gone by… Hailing it as a halcyon age… When perhaps the reality does not quite match up to my filtered memory… The way we communicate these days is supposed to be much more convenient, isn’t it? And much more flexible… No? I have increasingly started to think that many of the so-called conveniences in our lives can pile up and drive us to frustration… For example, I know lots of people that when they text or e-mail someone and then do not hear back from the person in a fairly short period of time — their imagination runs wild! Or they start to wonder what the reasons could be for not receiving the speedy reply… “Perhaps I did something wrong?” I even get the odd pang of it from time to time, maybe when I’m waiting to hear back from a client, a close friend or a loved one. It is crazy, isn’t it? These alleged conveniences are supposed to make communicati
