When I think of communication, I
think of two people talking face-to-face talking to one another. In this day
and age, people text one another instead of calling or talking to that person
face to face. I believe that that when human beings talk to each other face to
face whether it’s in person or FaceTime, it helps their social skills. There are more and more social networking
sites that are taking away from face to face interaction. There are web sites
that help you find your old friends, to help you find new friends and to find a
potential significant other. In my opinion, verbal communication (face to face
conversation) is extremely important for people to do every day because it
builds on a person their social skills. When talking face to face you can tell
if a person is lying, bored with the conversation and you’re able to get a
certain type of connection that you can only get if you interact with someone
in person.
Visual communication teaches a
person how to interact in public. It establishes trust among each other. I believe I respond better to verbal
communication because I am a listener rather than visual communication. It’s
actually one of my best character traits. I decided to google the importance of
face to face communication and came up with a couple results. According to
www.insightsfromanalytics.com, 67% of senior executives say their organization
would be more productive with face to face communication. According to
www.yourthoughtparnter.com, face to face communication demonstrates importance,
interpret thoughts and feelings, enhance credibility and trust and build
relationships (like what I said above).
I believe that socially awkward
people are the type of people to only text people or interact with others via
social media. Those types of people are called I call nerds. Now it might sound
mean and very rude, but if you think about it, I could be right. They sit around and lounge all day, play video
games all day, eat pizza, drink soda and get pimples all over their face. They
feel ugly so they chose to talk behind some type of device. People, who are
more social, tend to do more social like things. They talk on the phone, they hang out with
their friends, they like to smile and they do more than communicate via devices.
I don't necessarily use visual communication
because I reading isn’t my strongest pleasure. Yes, I'm lazy but unless the
message is nice and short, I hate reading long text messages or even blogs (Probably
the reason why I never decided to write one). I don't even want to write this
because I eventually have to re-read this and edit it. I rather just talk to
people how I feel. I'm not the diary type of person. I barely have long
conversations via text message. If I do, I make it interesting by adding GIFS to
my messages. GIFS are moveable images that will make animate your point across.
It brings humor to messages. Or at least in my situation they do.
When I think of a company that has an
excellent example of visual and audio communication, it’s the Cellino and
Barnes commercial. There slogan (which is a song) is very catchy. I find myself
singing along whether it’s on the television or radio. Another catch is the Six
Flags commercial with the old man dancing to the funky pop music. When a kid watches
the commercial, they find it hilarious to see the man break dance. That makes
them want to dance to the song when they see the commercial or when they hear
it. My last example of a company with great visual and audio communication was
the old Jenny Craig commercial with Kristy Alley. Her slogan for the company
was “Have you called Jenny yet?” She added her sense of humor and made it
catchy for people to remember.
