Communication

Communication, the key to a successful relationship,

differentiates us from animals and it improves over
time.

How Do We Get From Signals to Telephone?

Communication is one of the reasons for the many things
that distinguish us from animals. Smoke signals, a visual
communication used to get attention, are the first ever
recorded long-distance communication. Historical evidence
led us to the fact that the first smoke signals were used in
China in 200BC. Later, a new communication method,
pigeons, were used. Pigeons have this natural homing ability
that makes them effective as a messenger. A familiar
communication method, pony express, was used back in the
day. Just like mailing but instead of cars or bikes, they used
Face to face communication, done in real time
horses for transportation. It was 1790 in France when
Claude Chappe and his brothers developed this
communication method, the semaphore flag, a hand-held
flag that’s cut diagonally red and yellow. Telegraph is the
first communication device to involve electricity. It uses Emojis Are New Alphabets
morse code, information was sent by making and breaking
an electrical connection. This device was used from the Sentences that build up chemistry are usually replaced by
1840s until the late 20th century. In the late 1920s people emojis. Emoji is an example of the improvement of
started to use radios. Then people start using telephone, a technologies and human brains. The question is, how do we
synchronous communication device, where we can still find get from cave drawings to emojis? First, it started 17300
these days in offices or workplaces. years ago. Caveman draw, they express their feeling by
drawing instead of words, this drawing is called Cave art.
Soon, for the first time, 5000 years ago, we wrote our
thought. Instead of pictures, they use symbols for sounds.
Century, a period of one hundred years It first starts with something complicated than after it got
Distinguish, recognize or treat as different
Synchronous, existing or occurring at the same time
more popular, it became something simpler. In the late
20th century, comic books become a new integrated
language, because it’s visual yet textual. This world has so

Conclusion
Does Faster Communication Lead to The Loss of
Social Etiquette? Changes happen, in this matter, technologies changes.
These changes help people improve their lives,
Just like us, technologies improve. In 1876 telephone was
communications are faster, jobs were done more
invented, satellite was launched in 1962. Next cell phones
efficiently, and so much more.
were launched (in 1980). In the race to improve technologies,
we have forgotten the basics of social etiquette and real
human closeness. Technologies have made communication
so much faster. But it widened the gap between the young
and the old. Social media are new doors to communication. Experiences and person emotions relaced by
People are too busy, with their social media, they forgot the virtual world
simple rules of social interactions. These things we use
online, acronyms names, emoticons, and emojis, replace live,
in- person emotions, and experiences. Misused technological
advances can lead to the loss of social etiquette.

etiquette, customs that control how a responsible individual should behave in the
society
acronyms, initial letters of some words and pronounced as a word