No Need To Call Analysis

It is safe to say that the telephone has changed drastically since Alexander Graham Bell spoke into a telephone for the first time in March of 1876. From a rotary phone, to a Motorola RAZR, all the way to an iPhone, tactics of communication are constantly improving. The telephone, which not too long ago was new in technology, is now becoming obsolete. Hour long phone calls have been replaced by instantaneous text messages, omitting the insipid small talk that comes along with phone conversations. In “No Need to Call”, an article by Sherry Turkle, it is said, “When you can think about what you’re going to say, you can talk to someone you’d have trouble talking to. And it doesn’t seem weird that you pause for two minutes to think about what you’re …show more content…
For instance, if a close friend passes away, a phone call would be the considerate form of communication. Last year a friend of mine in high school committed suicide. Unsure what to do with myself and my emotions, I sent a text to a mutual friend, making sure she was doing alright, assuming she had heard the news. I made the mistake of texting her instead of calling, and it turned out that she was in a meeting at the time, and had not heard about Joe’s passing. In situations like this, a phone call would have been much more personal and …show more content…
Knowing someone’s appearance or sound of voice when listening to them talk is extremely favorable and heightens the personal level of the communication between two people. Growing up with cell phones and websites like Facebook, Instagram, and Tinder, it is much easier for any type of person so feel comfortable and personal with someone else, even if they can’t physically be with that person. Talking to someone online with the ability to look at photos and statuses that they have posted, brings things to a much more personal level. Being able to follow someone’s life from across the world is an incredible thing that we make use of every day. In “No Need to Call” by Sherry Turkle it is put simply, “Face-to-face conversations happen way less than they did before”. For some people, communicating with someone online is more comfortable, or maybe just more convenient. For myself and I’m sure most other college students, it is more convenient because many of us are far away from home. Texting and Facebook became some of my only ways of communicating with people from home, so much that my mom actually made a Facebook account to be able to see what I’m up to at