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Digital Communication and Its Impacts on Social Life

INTRODUCTION:

The term refers to the method people of 2000s prefer to communicate with each other.

Everything in today’s world is interconnected. We can look up any of the information we want at

any time on google or related websites. Regardless of whether it is the business of a father, that is

to be researched upon the internet, or the homework of a child, or the mother’s delicious food’s

recipes, all of these are methods with which we are digitally connected with the society. All these

chatbots, blogging or chatting applications and websites are a part of digital communication.

Digital communication uses a range of digital tools and platforms e-purposeful formats,

including but not limited to websites, e-Portfolios, PowerPoint presentations, multimedia blogs

and Tweets, and digital news.

Digital communication uses a variety of media to interact and communicate can be on stage

written exchange, conduct or take video / oral interviews, and face any other audience who may

have access to this work. This possibly includes the use of social media, including wiki, blogs,

Facebook comments, chat boards, or other forms of digital collaboration. Some of the most

effective and popular digital communication methods include different media in planning to

build communication between the author and the audience - especially news sites, business

websites, and social media like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

EFFECTS OF DIGITAL COMMUNICATION:

As all the other things in the world, digital communication has both its positive and negative

affects on the society. Physical and digital communication rivalry is just like the T.V and the

newspapers rivalry in the 80s. This is a tug-of-war between the both and it will always be a

never-ending war

Technology has made it easier to keep extended communication logs. Indeed, telephone

conversations can also be recorded and signed in digital formats through a customer management

system. Despite the immediate need to keep an official record of literature, technology has made

it easier to trade in logging.

Composing has transformed workers into mobile workers. This means that people can

communicate by phone or from anywhere in the world, and can work collaboratively with

partners through cell phones, online resources or video conferencing. This makes the agents

more profitable, and with greater flexibility in working hours and in their environment. Portable

employees can access all important buildings, data and company assets as office workers.

Technology has helped organizations to reverse this cycle. This gives organizations the

ability to move faster, bringing in lower costs. The parallel cycle case uses the Customer

Relationship Management (CRM) tool, which allows the sales team to clearly see when they

have spoken and what courses will take place. One component of this new feature will include

phone frames and a CRM system so when a customer calls, his or her record is therefore drawn

on a background marked with notes. This improves customer experience as they currently do not

need to open everything about the messenger.

However, there are some of the disadvantages of digital communication. Technology has

reduced the amount of face-to-face contact or the amount of real phone conversations people

have. It is much easier to text than to participate in a call. While this is beneficial, there is an

incentive in the conversation that is already lost now. Communication is built whenever a

business knows its client and finds times to use it to work more closely with home

communication.

For example, when an employee is connected to a client via email, "Hello Robin," this is a very

direct greeting that be extremely useless or irregular. If the email body uses the wrong slang or

grammar, use may delete the email before completing it. It’s important to get to know your

customers or clients on an easy-to-find basis before you go straight into first name greetings and

maintain your professional communication style.

Does digital communication effect formal writing in a positive way or a negative way?

As all the other things in the world, digital communication has both, positive and negative

effects. But when it comes to formal writing, there is a rather different approach. There are

almost uncountable platforms through which people can contact each other like WhatsApp,

Messenger, Instagram and the list goes on and on, the thing is it has affected formal writing in a

negative way. Talking to each other without even proper greetings is becoming habitual and all

the formality that took place before one stated his reason of contact has come to an end. Now we

just state the reason of calling upon the other one and not even ask them how their life is going,

the conversations are becoming shorter and shorter and point-to-point. Since we are living a
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digital era, a faster generation, the free time we get is also getting cut short. So, we just try to

keep our conversations rock-bottom.

Developments in book design have brought great changes to the language. As noted by

Biesenbach-Lucas and Wiesenforth (2001), successive variations in integrated language have

raised concerns about the negative impact of language development. Multilingual scientists argue

that decay is expected to increase the use of electronic books. The lack of eye-eye contact that

occasionally identifies this component of the computer means that many logical and meaningless

language symbols can be lost, and it is doubtful that grammatical expressions, for example,

appropriateness, importance and cultural status are still intertwined electronically (Sahandri,

Ghorbani, and Saifuddin, 2009).

Is digital communication more of a distract than a benefit?

Excessive digital portability can be a problem for the definition of the current workplace.

Throughout the day and night, in workplaces, workstations, tablets, and cell phones, we carry a

lot of messages and warn that in any case, when we need to focus, it is almost impossible to

understand. Moreover, when we are tempted to procrastinate, distractions are common.

This habit of meeting regularly causes great damage both professionally and internally.

We are constantly on the move, focused on, and empowered with information unnecessarily and

connecting, busy but with little to no trace. As the late Clifford Nass and his friends at Stanford

University have revealed, people who regularly encounter a few floods do not focus, do not keep,

or keep their promises as people focus on each thing in turn. The result is lower profitability and

commitment, both at work and at home Gloria Mark, of the University of California, Irvine,

pointed out that employees usually take care of an assignment for about three minutes before
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switching to something else (usually electronic literature) and that it takes 20 minutes to restore a

previous job.

Are Facebook ‘friends’, really friends?

Of the 71 percent of Internet clients now on Facebook, "friends" include the most immersive

interactions - older classmates, partners, one-night meetings, repeatedly, people who may

somehow be outsiders complete. Facebook puts each type of communication with each other in a

"friends" channel. Either way, relationship breakdown can work for great strength: A co-worker

compared to a real friend, for example, signs different levels of trust and ambition. With 70% of

Facebook clients locally daily, social and psychologists analyze the link between Facebook

usage and changes in quality relationships. Facebook may simply expose shallow organizations

that would otherwise be spread differently.

Social networking sites create connections between strangers and new friends, allowing teens to

get to know new friends and get to know them better. About 66% (64%) of teens who made one

friend online meet new friends on a social media platform. 66% of teens say they have shared a

social media username by appearing in the New Friend box to communicate.

When asked to keep up-to-date with their friends, social networking sites such as Facebook or

Twitter are one of the top social networking sites (66%) of teens. It concludes to an extent that

instead of relying on friends on social media, it’s more convenient to interact with the real-life

friends whom you know and meet often. Because the reality can be blurred on the social media

platforms, but it remains natural and real in physical environment around us.

CONCLUSION:
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All in all, digital communication has become a hot topic and has resulted in a large number of

face-to-face conversations and interpersonal interactions that provide the basic social trade that

young people and adults who build youth friendship skills need. Digital communication has

taken over the social part of the lives of many people who use it. Remarkably, these people can

end up investing less energy in connecting with others and building collaborative skills.

During this time, adults and teens are more comfortable with e-mails and less likely to

lose their ability to communicate at any time. Likewise, digital communication keeps people

from having the opportunity to have meaningful relationships with others and protects them from

building interpersonal skills.

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