Social Selves

Consider yourselves as users of technology: What do you think are the implication of using technology for the purpose of communicating our ‘social selves’?


Communication is the most important factor shaping human destiny. Our existence would perhaps be meaningless without the ability to communicate since it is through communication that we understand self and others, our environment, our behaviors and actions, and are able to describe our purpose, feelings, and view of the world.

Humans have been communication through different means throughout centuries, It is only the end of 20th century theses means have been completely transform by technology.
In the 1980, the fax machine "wow" the business communities, It allows them to communicate with their partners at the others side of the world in a minute. Then came the email system which make the fax machine almost obsolete. From that point on, technology has revolutionize the human communication.

In my day today work, I used heavily the web 2.0 technology to communicate, it is become a necessity to use technology for communication. Our Jobs are no longer static. We became more mobile, staffs are working on the field outside the office, there is an increasing and constantly evolving demand for speed – and our technological advances are in mass emergence dedicated to meet this demand.
The invention and development of the mobile Phone, instant messaging, text messaging, tweet and other forms of telecommunications networks and systems have made easy both for individual personal and business organizational to use for their fast communication.

All these technology had somewhat a positive impact on business and the economy and have serve us well. But the use of theses technology and the very nature of who and what we are become is sacrificed in the process – social interaction which is develop mainly through communication as the most instrumental form humans contact is disappearing. We tweet. we facebook, and WE hide our emotion behind the wall of social networking. No contact necessary to do or say what ever is in your mind......... and you are rarely hold accountable .