“I’m sorry. I do not understand you.”
Nov 28th, 2010 by elichan
In Friday’s The Globe and Mail, there was an article, “Generation Text sends wrong message”, discussing how young adults entering the workforce are having difficulties with communicating with their co-workers because of their reckless practices of texting and instant messaging with their friends.
Being one myself, I also agree that most of the others my age are relying excessively on communicating by “shorthand style of writing.” For instance, our constant use of Windows Live messenger and text messaging phone devices have ourselves typing out “lol” or “brb” when we could be correctly saying “That is absolutely hilarious!” or “I’ll be right back.” Perhaps this is due to our apparent laziness in typing out extra words that would seem unnecessary in a casual conversation with our friends.
Moreover, the uprise of social media allow all to post on our friend’s walls which would often include various emotions, such as “:)” or “<3". Not only that, our comments are usually also consisted of abbreviations of words or slang words which would be definitely inappropriate for a formal conversation. Unfortunately, our daily use of Facebook, for instance, deter us from effective communication that will be significantly important in our future jobs when we will want to speak to our boss or co-worker. Word count: 208 words