Has telephone and email made communication less persona2

Has telephone and email made communication less personal?
With increasing developed long distance communication
techniques, people become more dependants on telephone and
email to contact with other persons other than face to face talk.
Some people feel afraid that such trends will make communication
less personal. However, other people insist that it is not a problem,
because email and telephone provide life with more convenient. I
think that both the two sorts of opinions have their own advantages
and disadvantages.
On the one hand, email and telephone actually cut down personal
associations not only in daily life, but also in the work. For example,
in modern business, email and telephone replace traditional mail
acting as main communication way for buyers and sellers. A
contract and trade can be accomplished even without face-to-face
talk. It promotes the efficient of work through saving travel time and
labor cost. While some people, especially those who not live with
parents, always just call their parents other than go home. To some
extend, it decreases the time for them to get together with their
family. In a world, new techniques decrease personal talk, benefiting
business with low cost, but cut
time that people spend with their family.
On the other hand, email and telephone are furnishing people more
chances to communicate with outside world and broaden their
association scope. Through email and telephone, people can freely
and timely talk and write to other ones who live faraway. In
transnational company, market manager who live in North America
can accurately grasp the market situations of European or Asia
through a email or telephone report. The impossible
communications before are turned into reality, which to some
extend, promoting personal association and communication. To
those people who live far from their hometown, new technique give

them chance to talk with their family and friends through telephone
frequently or email. Especially new trends of development market
email more personalized, which can attach a video file or picture
files. As a result, their relationships are continuously enhanced


through such approaches.
From what have been discussed above, the beneficiations and
drawbacks of the use of telephone and email are weighted. Even
though new communication methods cut some personal
communication, it contributes to worldwide development, such as
in the global business and trading; at the same time, it tightly
connected the whole world together.
People who live far from home will not feel alone if they own
telephone and email. Therefore, I think that telephone and email,
strengthen personal connection other than decrease it.