Computer Mediated Communication's Impact On Interpersonal Communication

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Email is a popular way to communicate online. With ever-growing technology online communication is only becoming more popular among people today. The question that remains is what impact does email have on our communication? Email has different impacts depending on if it is for professional or personal use. Email as a form of communication for professional use is positive, while impact for personal use is fairly negative. Overall the impact of email on interpersonal communication has positive and negative effects that can affect each other. Computer Mediated Communication, or CMC, has become prevalent in our lives today. Email happens to be the most common form of CMC within workplaces and organizations. (Darks & Bakker, 2010) Emails in the …show more content…

My positive experiences with email have mostly been with gaining information on work related details. My professors send emails about projects and their due dates, I send and receive information with an alumni who I am interning with, and I get rehearsal schedules and other important information regarding any work I am currently involved in with the Drama Club. I have also experienced negative impacts on my communication while using email. I have had many times where I have tried to contact someone and my email has never been answered. In terms of my interpersonal communication there have been emails that I have sent and had to reestablish what I was trying to say because a misunderstanding happened along the way. As with any form of online communication the misunderstanding might have come from a lack of nonverbal cues or, with many types of communication, it could have come from a lack of shared knowledge. Personally I have experienced a decrease in face-to-face communication while participating in email and other forms of online discussion. There have been many times where my friends and I would chat online with each other while sitting in the same room. Specifically, there was a time where a friend and I were sitting in the same room while sending emails to each other as a joke since we don’t communicate through email as much as through social media sites such as

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