to find a connection between this generation’s reliance on technology and their ability to have face-to-face conversations. Generation z includes anyone born in the mid 1990s through the late 2000s. Generation z has often been called the technological generation, and I would like to discover if by placing too much dependence on computers, iPods, and text-messaging, that the people of this generation will become more impersonal and loose their speaking skills. Using online networking sites to make friends, listening to an iPod instead of talking to surrounding people, and text-messaging someone instead of calling them all remove verbal communication, and I wonder if the growing participation in these actions will ruin one’s ability to speak in-person all together. Is generation z, out of all of the other generations, the most susceptible to this loss of speaking skills because they are born into this era? If anyone has any ideas about these questions, please feel free to leave your thoughts, and here is a video that might trigger some ideas!Monday, October 19, 2009
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to find a connection between this generation’s reliance on technology and their ability to have face-to-face conversations. Generation z includes anyone born in the mid 1990s through the late 2000s. Generation z has often been called the technological generation, and I would like to discover if by placing too much dependence on computers, iPods, and text-messaging, that the people of this generation will become more impersonal and loose their speaking skills. Using online networking sites to make friends, listening to an iPod instead of talking to surrounding people, and text-messaging someone instead of calling them all remove verbal communication, and I wonder if the growing participation in these actions will ruin one’s ability to speak in-person all together. Is generation z, out of all of the other generations, the most susceptible to this loss of speaking skills because they are born into this era? If anyone has any ideas about these questions, please feel free to leave your thoughts, and here is a video that might trigger some ideas!
to find a connection between this generation’s reliance on technology and their ability to have face-to-face conversations. Generation z includes anyone born in the mid 1990s through the late 2000s. Generation z has often been called the technological generation, and I would like to discover if by placing too much dependence on computers, iPods, and text-messaging, that the people of this generation will become more impersonal and loose their speaking skills. Using online networking sites to make friends, listening to an iPod instead of talking to surrounding people, and text-messaging someone instead of calling them all remove verbal communication, and I wonder if the growing participation in these actions will ruin one’s ability to speak in-person all together. Is generation z, out of all of the other generations, the most susceptible to this loss of speaking skills because they are born into this era? If anyone has any ideas about these questions, please feel free to leave your thoughts, and here is a video that might trigger some ideas!
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I like the way that you broke out the generations in your quiz. Turns out my daughter and my oldest two nephews are gen y. Their verbal skills and social interaction skills seem to be better than my younger nieces and nephews but part of that could just be age difference itself.
ReplyDeleteMore than verbal skills though I tend to worry about their writing skills it is almost like they can't write without using text messaging slang. Most of their handwriting itself seems to be lacking. I wonder if that has to do with the fact that they do more typing than writing.
Verbal skills will either be resolved or not by the time they start college.
I agree that writing skills are also affected by this new wave of communication. It is almost as if young people are writing more informally because of their bad habits created by text-messaging and social networking…This would be a very interesting concept to look into and maybe it would give my topic more depth. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI remember in high school I had one teacher who would only accept handwritten essays. We were appalled by this requirement. No ease of typing, no spell check, no dictionary.com, no quick reference of the internet. It was so difficult for me to hand write an entire paper that I started to type the entire thing, and then go back and write it out to turn in. However, I have to wonder if this is due to the drastic turn communication has taken; I didn't have a texting cell phone until my sophomore year of high school, and even then it was so limited I hardly used it, due mainly to the fact that nearly everyone I knew had limited texting as well.
ReplyDeleteHowever, once texting took hold, everyone was hooked. My mom and I would exchange messages of where to meet, when to be home, what to pick up for her at the grocery store. My brothers and I chatted over texts, my dad would send me messages reminding me to check the oil in my car or make sure the sprinkler pump was off. Communication became so much easier. But I was shocked by the terrible grammar my parents employed in their texts to me. They use more slang than I do and my mom has this habit of abbreviating every word to just the first letter: thus, "where is my blush" becomes "w i me blsh." Completely indecipherable. Even worse is my father's attempt to master T9. This atrocious writing does not carry over into emails or instant messages though. Perhaps there is something different about texting that makes it completely acceptable to send illegible messages?
I think the reason that it has become acceptable for illegible messages when texting is because of the tiny keypads, that and having to type 44h-33e-555l-555l-6660 just to get hello out with a phone keypad.
ReplyDeleteSeems to me that texting, in general, is an attempt to use an inefficient tool to become more efficient. Texts take more time to get words out than a phone call, but the phone call usually takes more time because of the risk of getting into an actual conversation.
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