Face to face and other types of communication

How can it be that in this age of sophisticated communications technology, our interpersonal communications are suffering? The answer is that few people take the time (or feel they have the time) to learn the skills needed for effective one-to-one communication. In fact, few are even aware that communication skills can be learned.
People no longer participate in local community organizations, or become members of assorted clubs with as much fervor as they used to.
This is a problem because social capital has many important benefits, including improving people's lives both biologically and psychologically. Having close and frequent connections with other members of a community makes an individual healthier. It also does much to promote behaviors which are beneficial for the whole society and encourage a more socially oriented populace.
Face-to-face communication is difficult to maintain, and as such, we are continually becoming more reliant on other, easier forms of communication to maintain these relationships.
Online interactions often provide anonymity and an ability to present ourselves differently than we might ordinarily. The predominance of written communication gives us a way to edit our utterances until they fit the image we want to project, something which is not quite so simple in a real time environment. Since our words are our only connection to others, it is much easier to be duplicitous or even self-deluding.
Biologists and psychologists have shown that physical contact provides biological benefits, as well, and without it people become depressed and ill. Laughter is, of course, the best medicine, and though this may not be medically proven, it rings true for me. Some people think that much of communication is done non-verbally and emotions can easily be transferred from person to person without the utterance of a single word. If community loses its physical aspect, I believe that many of the subtle...

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