More to talk about!

We were talking about communication in Web Presence, and how that's what it's all about.  I think communication is changing, yet I also find it interesting how people feel about that.  They say that we communicate mostly through our body language, yet things like email take that away from us.  Yet, email appearently is a very effective way of getting information from one place to another.  Documents can now be sent in seconds when only a couple of years ago it used to take minutes.  Even before that it used to take days or even years!

People criticise communication like emails and social networking because they claim there is a lack of intimacy, but why has it become so popular?  Is it because there is no longer the risk of allowing our bodies to protray us, so-to-speak, because all we have is text and pictures that we (or our sneaky friends) choose?  People claim they are addicted to social networking, and I'm interested in how that happens.  It is as if we want to feel closer to people, yet we are actually separating ourselves from the people that are in our direct presence.  I can't say for sure what is "good" or "bad" (it's all grey, isn't it?), and where exactly these "problems" lie.  I just know that the web and internet are both BIG things in our lives, and we can either learn how to use it, or let it pass us by.