Interpersonal Communication Loss

The Loss of Interpersonal Communication Interpersonal Communication is the process by which people exchange information, feelings, and meaning through verbal and nonverbal messages: it is face-to-face communication. Sherry Turkle, a professor at MIT for the social studies of science and technology asked the question “Would you rather text than talk?” to people. What she concluded was that “People would rather text because they are so used to being short changed out of real conversation.” People have gotten used to being ignored or come second to a person's phone. People pay more attention to their phones than the person trying to have a conversation with them. “They are so used to getting by with less that they become almost willing to dispense
One in four crashes are caused by distracted driving by a cell phone in the United States (Texting). In April of 2014, a woman was killed in an accident caused by cell phone use. At 8:33am on her way to work she updated her Facebook status saying “The happy song makes me HAPPY!!” At 8:34 am, a minute later, a 911 call was placed reporting the crash. Her car drifted into the grass median and into the opposite lane where she collided with a truck. The car caught on fire and she died instantly, she was thirty two years old (Hastings). Using a phone while driving can cause horrendous effects for the user or an innocent person. There are many commercials and advertisements all around the United States and the rest other world warning people about distracted driving. Those advertisements reveal that people know phone usage while driving is dangerous but they choose to do it anyways. It’s illegal but people do it anyways even when they know what could happen. We think “Oh that'll never happen to me because I only use my phone when I'm stopped.” If we use our phone when we are stopped we could start to use it when we are going slowly in a neighborhood. That could lead to us texting while driving on the main road going forty-five mph, the next time we could be texting on the interstate going seventy mph. We feel we can multitask well enough to quickly type a message and pay
The addiction of cell phones will only increase because of all the new technology and accessibility for them. Cell phones are the equivalent to digital cocaine. Once you start to use your phone more and more you can't help yourself from looking at it during dinner, class or a meeting. This can start to affect your life negatively at school, work, and in relationships. We should stop being digital zombies and realize what we are missing when we are on our phones. The question is are we at the breaking point? Have we reached the point where we start to realize what we are doing and are trying to fix our problem with phones? No, many people don't see a problem with the high amount of phone usage each day. There will come a day when people will understand the negative effects of constant phone usage and will try to stop, but will it be too late? Will we have lost interpersonal communication