“The prospect of face-to-face conversation frightens many britons because of their increasing dependance on modern technology” reports The Times of London. A survey of 1,000, conducted by British Gas, found that daily the average person spends just under fours hours of his waking life “using technology originally intended to give people more time to themselves.”
skills such as talking face-to-face, are damaged…
According to the report, “the average Briton spends 88 minutes a day on a landline telephone, a further 62 minutes on a mobile telephone, 53 minutes e-mailing and 22 minutes text messaging.” The survey concluded that communication skills such as talking face-to-face, are damaged. Many of those surveyed admitted that they used text messaging “as a way of cutting out conversational frills or to avoid conversation altogether” - Watching the World - Awake Magazine
I have always thought that the use of technology could come to this… we become so tied to our little gadgets and computers we are losing the art of conversation. What do you think?
This article did AWAKE me once again from the pitfall of misusing gadgets like mobilephone and so on.It is becoming serious problem in Japan,too. We have to take care to avoid it.
hmmm… yes mobile phones i think are one of the biggest potential offenders, i once read of people owning upto 8 mobile phone’s at once, now that’s a sad addiction.
i was trying to write this comment but my phone rang then i got a msg on my mobile and i think i just got a couple of emails. i think i see the problem. Especially in Japan when sending a email from your phone costs only 10cents it easy to see why some dont put down there phones and talk to the people around them.