The Most Effective Way to Communicate

What is better? Texting? Calling? Growing up in the computer age has only allowed me to complete tasks in a more convenient way. The computer age has led to the development of the cellular telephone. The cell phone (short for cellular telephone) has allowed people to communicate with people on-the-go in many ways such as calling them, or now, a very popular way, texting (short for text messaging) them. Both of these methods of communication have their short comings, and there up-brinings, but in the long run, both are effective ways of communicating with the other person.

Communicating with an individual is a process in which many parts are necessary such as body language, tone, and word choice. Calling someone is more personal and professional. Calling allows the tone of your voice to travel, and the person on the receiving end can more effectively receive your message. This is necessary to understand the demeanor in what is being said. A phrase as simple as saying, "ok" can come across many different ways. One way it could come across to the person on the receiving end is, "ok" in a happy, excited tone. It could also come off as "ok" in a depressed, mean demeanor. This is one huge advantage that calling has over texting. When one texts someone, the individual receiving the message can read it in any tone that they want or think it is in, which could lead to a disaster if it is a controversial text. Calling someone over the phone, this eliminates any way of a wrong message being received. Calling and texting also use the same language. I mean, you can speak a different language over the phone, and text in another, but you can change the keyboard if need be. This gives people more options on communicating with another. In the lon...

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...ened to wait until its ok to send a text that may be urgent. All they have to do is speak it into the device. With the development of so many products out there, texting and driving may not be such a big problem in the near future. All of these new technologies are a product of the invention of the cellular telephone.

Calling and texting though very different, are also very similar in the way they can communicate with ease and speed, device, and use of language. It is the way points come across to the person receiving the message, and how one is more appropriate in different situations than another is. Brought up from computer age, cellular telephones have played an important part in our lives. Cell phones have many uses, but texting and calling people trumps it all. These two ways of communicating allow people to get their point across in any which way they like.