Impact On Digital Communication

Digital communication is the electronic exchange of information through various media. I am growing up in a quickly advancing digital world where technology has had major effects on society. Anyone who has grown up in the 21st century has always had technology in their life whether through cell phones, television, computers or game systems. The use of social media outlets to communicate with others has been a highlight among the 21st generation and is a major method of communication in today’s society. through the use of websites, audio, video, text, and animated multimedia.The best parts of digital communication and its assets are improvements to interpersonal communication, relationships and health care.

One way technology has changed

They now don’t use words to communicate with their fellow peers and friends. Every person who texts uses emojis, which are pictures that represent different emotions or words. You also abbreviate words like BRB meaning Be Right Back. Teens do not like to waste time. They like to get the words written down in the text message as fast as they can. Professor Vyv Evans from Bangor University found that 72% of 18-25 year olds sometimes find it easier to communicate their feelings and thoughts using emojis rather than words. They use emojis to show their feeling because a simple text message does not show how you feel. The picture shows an emotion. Words can’t show emotions. They just show how you are feeling not what you are feeling. Text message or SMS messaging were only just recently invented. The first SMS message was sent by a computer to a phone on December 3, 1992 by a 22-year-old Canadian test engineer that said “It read Merry Christmas” and Richard Jarvisand recieved the

It has provided medical providers more tools for research, treatment and data collection. It is very uncommon to visit a provider nowaday that is not using some type of handheld device to download important medical information to share with their patients. Doctors are now able to look up patient’s medications, needs and/or history of medical conditions in a flash. They are also able to contact the closest hospital that can care for their patients that may need special medical treatment. Also, patients have more accessible and improved treatment options. Patients can contact their doctors if they are having any kind of health problem and access services at any time. If there were no phones, how could people contact their 911 emergency services? If an older gentleman was having a heart attack and needed emergency services in 1950, he would not have been as likely to have survived the heart attack. Just think about how many people would be dead right now if there were less advanced communication methods. On the other hand, such advanced technology can affect your health. It has made people lazy. Most teenagers would rather watch television or use their phone to watch a movie or play a game. All that time that is spent staring at a screen affects your eyes and can make you tired and stressed. Kids now spend less time outside and exercising because there are so many things