Instant Communication

In modern society we are finding new ways of using technology to say what we need to say, in particular the transportation of our love notes have changed; they are delivered faster and more often.

Technology has certainly made a lot of transitions over the past years with e-mail, chat and various social networking sites and the need for a tangible product is getting less, except, in my opinion, when we apply it to personal relationships. I believe that even in this day and age, couples in an emotional relationship still require a physical connection and since people seem to have stopped writing letters and sending it by post, we are being bombarded with blogs, instant messages and twitters; we now seem to share our deepest feelings with our computers.

Our need for instant communication has gone from the invention of e-mail, where we got our mail faster, it was virtual and easy to access, so we could send smaller messages, more often. This does prove to be more convenient for people who are too busy to sit down for any length of time, but it still doesn’t fill the emotional and physical voids left when a loved one is far away. Mobile phone chatting is great for people on the move, as it allows instant messages and replies and doesn’t interrupt what the other person is doing, even if it becomes stale and detached.