Telecommunication is Important

There are many advantages to talking and texting, especially when otherwise not able to communicate with people in another way. Texting and calling are both very useful types of communication. These types of communication are much preferred over not hearing from your friends and family for long periods of time. Although to some people texts or calls just don’t compare to face-to-face communication.

Not only is over-the-phone communication different than face to face. It can have its disadvantages. Some people think it’s better to communicate over text because they can word vomit back and forth without interrupting each other but texting can have disadvantages such as not being able to hear the tone in their voice or know what they are trying to say something. Naturally, when we talk we usually express different tones of emotion in our voice and lots of that emotion is lost in translation through text. The issue of the tone being lost can be fixed by using calls. Incalls not only can you hear the emotion in their voice, but you can also hear the words they want to say calls have their disadvantages too.

While many people prefer calls they have some issues. Sometimes people talk over each other because the timing of calls is off which can get frustrating. Tones can often be misheard over the phone as well as sounding louder, quieter, or even more aggressive than the tone really sounded li in person. The microphone on phones doesn’t do a perfect job of everything we would hear in person.

Personally, I prefer to use call over text because most conversations over text lead to an argument of some kind. These arguments usually happen because the other person says I had a certain tone in my text even if I don’t make expression marks which becomes frustrating after some time. I like to talk with my voice over texting anyway but even over the phone, the conversation gets frustrating because we always interrupt each other. For some phone calls, I swear half the conversation is, “What? whaat?! whaaaaat did you sayy?!!” and this gets annoying quickly. Because this kind of thing would never happen in person

For these reasons, I say that there are both advantages and disadvantages to calling and texting. But given the disadvantages, I think this world would be sadder without being able to text or call so yay for telecommunications. Even if I get interrupted every 2 seconds or my text doesn’t go through I’m still grateful and happy that we have the ability to text and call each other.

“Telecommunications Radio Tower for Mobile Phone with Cloud Background” by Captain Kimo is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.