Communication

Communication: the activity of conveying information or a connection allowing access between persons or places.

Has anyone else noticed the way REAL communication seems to be falling into obscurity? By REAL communication I mean communication between people where emotions and tones are involved - for example, over the phone or in person. Everything is ELECTRONIC. Text messages, MYSPACE, e-mail, AIM, etc. i am very guilty when it comes to this so please don't call me a hypocrite - I'm just astonished by it. Really.

It's almost as though modern communication is really just a collection various ways to "copout".
We can no longer be "put on the spot". We now get a few moments, even a few days, weeks, or months, if we'd like, to respond. Nothing is "at first thought". everything is planned, thought out, thought about, asked about, told to us by others, and simply SCRIPTED. So, do we really know one another?

I feel as thought with all this new technology we are being deprived of the opportunity to communicate to the full extent of our ability. Thus, being deprived of one of the most important aspects of our existance among one another.

Speaking of technology - is the human purpose falling into obscurity? we operate computers, but will computers one day operate us? Are we giving up man power to a man made object?

or...are we just that lazy?