Computer Mediated Communication
Computer Mediated Communication
by YuJhan
In recent years, computer mediated communication (CMC)
become a trend for ones to communicate with others, communication via social
media like Facebook, Wechat, Snapchat or others application. With the emerged
of this social media, it actually provides a platform for people to increase
their interaction with others without considering their social background and
classes. Besides, social media also
plays as an important tool to maintain a long distance relationship (Dainton,
2003). Long distance relationships are defined as relationships in which
geographic distance limits daily physical togetherness between partners.
With
the emerged of the computer mediated communication (CMC), one is able to keep
in touch with his/her partner staying oversea by just accessing to social
media. Through CMC, they are able to update what happened around them with each
other while warming their heart like they are always by their sides. Besides
maintain long distance relationship, computer mediated communication also ease
for people to engage in relationship even they don’t know each other. This may
help one to be in touch with the world outside as some of them have no
confidence in themselves where they are unwilling to have face-to-face
socialization with others. As a result, the existence of CMC promotes them a
platform to make new friends and widen their knowledge.
However,
knowing friends through social media may lead to a person’s selective
self-presentation which is also known as hyper personal. Hyper personal
communication occurs when a sender only send selective messages which bring
himself/herself with benefits. A hyper personal sender is likely to show others
their strength and develop their good images strategically. For instance, one
of my friends, named J met her girlfriend via social media. When J first know
her girlfriend in Facebook, all the posts and pictures that she portray able to
give other a favorable impression to other, people only know about her good
traits. This same go with my friend, when they first meet, all thing seem to be
too good at the first sight, but time after time, when the relationship getting
closer and self-disclose deeper, the more problem they discover as in
hyper personal, most of the information that be shown are only show the good
traits but the bad side is not been mention.
Computer mediated communication have it pros
and cons, when people prefer to communicated via CMC, they will begin to lost
confident to communicated when the communication are in the form of face to
face as the ability for someone to communicated in real life will become a
stressful skill for them. Thus, thing
come with pros and cons, the most important is how you balance between it.
In a nutshell,
computer mediated communication is a vital tools for people to create, maintain
and even to sustain a relationship such as long distance relationship. In fact,
human communication via computer is actually a big loop for human society in
the way that human can communicate with each other via computer to exchange
information.
Dainton, M. (2003). Framing the maintenance of relationships
through communication: An epilogue. Maintaining relationships through
communication: Relational, contextual, and cultural variations, 299-321.
Hi YuJhan, I also think that CMC have its pros and cons. We as a human need to control ourselves from making the CMC complicated for instance many of us can pretend to be others in CMC to looks cool but we forgot that its can give bad impact on ourselves and to others.
ReplyDeleteI know nowadays everyone wants to looks good in front of others but please just be yourself to avoid the problem later on.
hye..thank you Yu Jhan for highlighted this issue. In my opinion yeah there are pros and corns in dealing with CMC. As we known we are in tertiary education we should know the limitation with dealing CMC means we must be careful in order to make a friends or sharing the news or something else to prevent ourselves from slander or anything bad things.
ReplyDeleteHye and Assalamualaikum everyone, thank you Yu Jhan for the interesting sharing about Computer Mediated Communication (CMC). As we all know that CMC is the new media way to communicate with our relatives and friends but in CMC we cannot know the the real identity of the person as in the CMC he/she can create a new personality that they never shown in real live. Therefore we must take a precautions steps before we easily expose our self in CMC and then build a serious relationship without even seeing them. in other word we cannot easily believe them. so be a smart users of social media and other CMC so that we eill never get involved any problem that can make us in trouble.
ReplyDeleteThank you for highlighting this issue! This is what we need to know for each of us nowadays, everything came with a price. So we have to be smart to not pay much more higher price than we should be. Privacy is one thing that should be taken into account in someone’s life. So be safe while exposing your data to tertiary party
ReplyDeleteI always have the thoughts that other people's lives are great and adventurous and fun when I scroll on my Instagram. However, as time goes by, I realise that sometimes what you see from Instagram or Facebook are just what people want you to see about them. Don't forget that when you are feeling jealous of someones's life, some people are jealous of yours too! Welcome to the world of CMC.
ReplyDeleteWith computer mediated communication, I think that the way people communicate with each other would change greatly. Behavior of talking would also change as one adapts to the lack of nonverbal communication among the society.
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