1501ART Tutorial Task Two

I use new communication technologies to communicate with my friends and family everyday. The forms of new communcation technologies I use include, my mobile phone, using text messaging, emailing, chatting online using MSN messenger, participating in social forums, and more recently webblogging, or blogging. My communication level varies from each different communication device I use. In text messages I am very brief, while using an Instant Messenger or Email I might be very consice as to what I would like to express. Blogging allows me to fully express whatever I would like to say, with no limit as to what I can type. Anyone can read my blog and anyone who has the access to the internet can comment on my entries.

The only time I communicate with people who I have not met in person would be when I am using social forums. While these people live in the same area as me I have not met them in person, yet through the certain social forum I participate in, I feel comfortable chatting with these people because they are friends of friends I have in the forum. These people are not different to friends who I know in person, and the conversations I have with them just as I do with friends.

I have had the same email since I was in grade 7, so that it almost 7 years ago. I dont use my personal email much because as time has passed and more people have gained access to the internet, instant messenging has become a more convienient way to communicate rather than emailing. I use my uni email log in only to check uni related emails. Most of my communication is done through instant messaging and texting.

In terms of socialising, I only use communication technologies that link me with people that I already know. Many people joining social forums or chat rooms are after meeting and making new friends, yet I prefer using these forms of communucation as a way of contacting already friends and family. Although I have been in internet chat rooms before I have never felt comfortable talking to strangers from a different city or even different country.

In conclusion, I believe all communication technologies allow people to have a more convienient life style.