Digital communication is becoming more and more popular all the time. When I was a little kid I never used much technological devices, I watched my movies on VHS, we only got our first flat screen television a couple of years ago and all I ever did was play outside. I never wanted to come inside and I loved to visit with relatives and friends. My grandparents house was my favourite place to go because it is right on the river and there are family members scattered all around so all I had to do was walk up the road to visit with someone. I thought this was great because I loved face-to-face interaction (the only non face-to-face communication I ever used was talk on the phone anyway) I also loved to play in the brook with my cousins, swim in the river, go for walks in the woods, and run around the field by the barn. I didn't even want to come inside when it was raining. I would run around bare foot and jump in the mud holes or just dance in the rain like a crazy person. I would like to point out that people have survived without the digital aspects of life for over a million years and it scares me how dependant our world has become in the last few years. The entire world shuts down when there is no power. No one even has wood stoves in their house anymore so if there's no power in the winter they could freeze to death. No one can cook, most people cannot preform their jobs, and since no one owns candles anymore, they often have no source of light. I am proud to say that we still have all the things that are necessary to survive with no power. I would much rather live with no power actually. My brothers however, are only six years younger than I am and are completely dependant on technology. They hate to visit my grandparents because they can't watch videos or play games, they do not want to sit and talk with the adults but will only stay outside for a couple of minutes at a time. Life without electricity to them is completely impossible. Older people often talk about the younger generation, but it's more the younger half of this generation. The thing that surprises me most about digital communications is how dependant people become on it over the last couple of years.
This video taught me that it is considered completely barbaric and rude to take longer than 24 hours to respond to an e-mail. I find this completely ridiculous because most people have better things to do than pace the floor and wait for an e-mail. If someone ever raked me for taking longer than 24 hours to respond to an e-mail I would be hysterical! it is completely unreasonable to expect the average person to check their e-mail all the time. In my opinion, unless you are a business-head or expecting big news via e-mail, you should not have to check it more than once a week. Another thing the video taught me was that digital edict is just as important as table manners in the modern world, and can say just as much about you too. This, once again, shows how dependant our world had become on digital communications.
For emailing, you use carbon copy when you want to copy others publicly, and blind carbon copy when you want to do it privately. Anyone who receives a Bcc email are not visible to others on the email. I think you would use this when a staff member is sending out an e-mail to the rest of the employees at the establishment. Another example would be sending out invitations to an event to a number of people.
The most important thing for young people to remember while using digital communications is: DO NOT TALK TO ANYONE YOU DO NOT KNOW. It can be very dangerous to talk to strange people other the internet, especially since they could have hidden their true identity. You should also NEVER RELEASE PERSONAL INFORMATION OF ANY KIND. People have ways of finding you and it could cause serious security and safety threats.
