Communication Error

Technology has forever changed our world, with texting being the newer way of communication in the technology world, and calling being a thing of the ages. It can begin an argument of which one is a better form of communication between calling or texting. And in this argumentative essay, there will be examples of both advantages and disadvantages of texting and calling.

To kick this argument off, you have to talk about the advantages and disadvantages of texting. An advantage of texting is the free will to be able to always send a text to someone, no matter where it is or when the text is taking place. Although texting has its ups and downs, it still has its disadvantages,  an example of this is a lengthy message that can become time consuming or tedious to send. While working in contrast to disadvantages, is the inability to sense emotion through a text, it becomes harder to fully understand what someone is really trying to portray over text when you can’t react to their emotions.

Texting is a good form of communication that isn’t as disruptive as a phone call, an example of this phenomenon is a person’s surroundings during a due phone call, an environment can play a large role in whether or not someone prefers to call or not. In certain situations, the environment may be a library, where calls are prohibited, or another environment could be a professional business where it is unethical to make calls in.

While texting sounds better than calling as of the moment, calling also has its own advantages. Unlike texting, it is easier to portray emotions over call than text. An example of this is how much easier it is to understand someone over call when you have the entitlement to the emotion behind what they said. While working with the narrative that calling is better than texting, An example of this statement that works in favor of calling over texting, is the fact a person can say so much more in a shorter time frame.

With every example that has been presented in this argument, It will be a question for a long time. Which form of communication will be more relevant for years to come, Texting or Calling?

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