Face To Face Interaction Analysis

The Internet is the key for communication and interaction with our family members and friends who live far across the ocean using social networking apps such as Facebook, Viber, WhatsApp, Skype, IMO and so on in this 21st century we live in. The social networking sites allows me to communicate and be part of my loved ones’ life who live very far away from me as I am not able to interact with them personally. However, online interaction is not the only key that enables me to interact with others but also interacting face-to-face. For example: - while we use social networking to interact people who are overseas, interact with our peers, strangers, teachers etc. we communicate face-to-face. Given the norms which are accepted by the society, the interaction I used whether it is online or face-to-face does not change my personality or my way of thinking (Brym et al., 2016, pg 117). While socially interacting with an individual online or face-to-face I have …show more content…
Face-to-face interaction allowed me to observe their body language, expression allowing me to understand more without any misunderstanding or misinterpretation. This gave me an idea of the person’s status or their “position or social location that has been defined by culture” (pg.117). A person’s personality is constituted of his/her likes, dislikes, interests etc, along with their status which is dependent on the “visual indications of a person’s social position” (pg.131), socio-economic class (upper, middle and lower class) and their education. I always tend to start the conversation with the strangers in order to erase the awkwardness that starts to build up. So, if my interaction with them causes uncomfortable environment, and awkwardness then I can withdraw myself from interacting with them and not bother them