Synchronous Communication

I never realized how much of today's generation (including me) depend on synchronous communication to keep in contact with our friends, family, and others in our every day life. I don't know what my life would be like right now without synchrnous communication. I have friends that live all over the country now and I don't like to interrupt their every day life with a phone call because I don't know how busy their daily schedules are, so it's just easier to send a text. But I never realized how much synchronous communication has taken over our lives and doesn't allow us to have a proper face-to-face conversation anymore together. I feel that since we are so dependent on synchronous forms of communication like text messaging and iming we are less likely to socialize interact face-to-face and for that matter even more so in uncomfortable conversations as well. I feel that now a days people will confront or start uncomfortable situations through text messaging or instant messaging because they don't feel comfortable to say it in person. I know that I can attest to that as well. It's just easier sometimes but a horrible way to do it.

I just wish that in some ways we could steer away from synchronous communication and be able to have more face-to-face conversations. The world I feel would be totally different today if we didn't have synchronous communication.