Jacob

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=What Exactly is Communication?= Communication. There are a lot of things that can fit under that category. But with age and time, people’s perspectives become different. At a very young age (like a baby) a person can’t speak yet. So the way that they communicate is through crying and grabbing and making noises. Then as you get older, you learn to talk, and then learn to use the telephone. Then, within the pre-teen and forward years, the internet becomes a valuable tool. So valuable in fact, that the internet becomes the main tool of some peoples jobs, and even lives. But other than words, there are signals that are used to take the place of words. Of course, not everybody learns sign language, but some people do, and they use it for a lot of their communicating. But the most fascinating of all, is the use of languages. I mean, how do these people come up with whole new words for every single thing. How did different languages come to be anyways? Why didn’t everybody just stick to what they knew? This is one explanation, but it still leaves some gaps. Maybe, when people started to expand outwards and began exploring the world, their view of the main language became sloppy and more slang, until it became so bad that it became a totally different language. But this is the gap. What do languages like Japanese and English have in common that you could say “Maybe they all are from one language.”? Try to find one word from both languages that sounds the same and means the same thing. I highly doubt that you’ll find one. And the other explanation is that some dude just decided to make a whole new language. But who makes up a new word for everything? It would take forever. The only thing left to talk about is the super fast communication of today. There are so many ways to find somebody and communicate with them. You can go onto an instant messenger like MSN for example and see if their online. If they aren’t, then you can send an e-mail. After sending that e-mail, you could phone their house to see if they are home. If they aren’t home, they might just have their cell phone on them. 4 ways right here that you could get a hold of a person, and after finding out that they’re not online, then you could do the e-mailing and the calling at the same time. Within 5 minutes, you can find somebody, wherever they are, whatever their doing. We live in what scientists are calling the “me” generation. Everything is about me (or you) and it has to be now, fast, this instant, etc. although it’s not always a bad thing, it can be frustrating when things don’t go our way. For example, if we can’t get a hold of a friend because their not online, not at home, and don’t have a cell phone. All of this technology helps, but raises our hopes up to the point that when things don’t go our way, we get angry and stressed out. There are so many ways to communicate, and I’ve only scratched the surface.