People these day are worse and worse at communication. They are lying to much on technology to talk to each other, to keep in touch, to express their feeling and their thought by the invention which is called chat messenger. Therefore, if I could uninvent one invention in the world so that it would no longer exist, it would definitely be chat messenger.
First, the idea of spending all day online on chat messenger is so terrible. It not only wastes our time but also ruins our relationship with people in real life. Can you stand the person who always hold the phone going online while hanging out with you? Can you accept someone talk with you through chat messenger whilst that person can meet you and talk face to face? Those behaviours are so impolite. If I am in those situation, I will be very sad and won't help it.
Next, when I chat on chat messenger, I may have friends who send unemotional messages, used lots of weird languages, and replied in super short way. Except I chat with the professional writer, the poet, or someone who is expert at writing, then the messages I receive are totally lack of emotion. I can't know the partners's feeling and easily misunderstand their ideas if the conversation just bases on text, even if they use emoticon. Also, they uses lots of words wrote in strange way which look like secret codes in “Da Vinci Code” or somewhat language that make me feel like I am talking with aliens. Furthermore, their replies are always very short. For instance, instead of typing “Ok”, they just type “K”. “Congratulation! You just save one millionth second of your life!” – that type of reply really makes me frustrated. Another example, I spend much time to type message which I think carefully and a lot for them. What I receive then? “K”, “Yep”, “ Nope” or something like that. Having a conversation with my knee is much more interesting than having a conversation on chat messenger with them.
Last but not least, chatting online makes people worse and worse at communication. People who depend on chat messenger are usually scared of having conversation in real life. Because of lacking communication skill due to getting used to talking on chat messenger and being afraid of meeting others, they hide themselves behind the screen and continue talking to others online. That cycle repeats again and again, and they never know how to have an appropriate conversation.
In conclusion, the invention that I would uninvent if I could do that is chat messenger. It wastes time, ruins relationship, conveys nothing, and makes people bad at communication. In the end, I think chat messenger will be the hot topic in future since it is ruining people communication skill which is very important to daily life.
I agree with you. However, have you ever thought that there are many situations or topics which you can not chat face to face, such as apology or something like that? ^^
ReplyDeleteI don't think so. If you want to apologize someone, you should meet them to say sorry. Because it's considered as impolite and lacking of willing if you apologize someone through messenger. If you do so, that person can't see you, your body language, and can't have eyes contact with you so that he/she can't feel anything about what you want to convey.
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