Communication and Culture

Without communication, culture would be dead and would not exist as it does and as you know it. 

It is because of the communication of ideas that they become real and sensible to others and it is by communication that others know about them and by their agreement they become customs, and beliefs, and stories come forth, and legends come to view, and history happens and is told, and religion becomes alive and thoughts about the universe happens and how this and that came about and so forth. 

The are dynamic systems which interact with one another, and if there was only one culture; one general culture which existed on this earth, there would still exist this dynamic quality about it because I don't think, theoretically and practically, that there has to be so many cultures for cultures to survive at all.

If you look at it from a purely biological point of view, you would see that cultures which survive the most are those which are the most in communication with one another; and those who have within their system an influence which antagonistic or against the direction in which the culture is moving, there is a discord and to that degree, that culture does not survive as well as it could. And all of this because of the lack of communication at the point in the system, for whatever reason there is that lack there, there is still a lack of communication there.  

There would be no cultures if there was no agreement about the beliefs about them and there would be no culture if there was not communication about these realities to one every member of the culture.

Cultures exist because they are communicated among the people where they come from and it express the active life of that people and peoples. For many, culture is the driving force behind their life and it is a source of thrust for them to be from and part of a definite culture. 

It is so amazing to see the variation of cultures that exist at different settings of the world and the topic at once extends beyond the antropological study of it, to a philosophical study and is there where questions and answers are found concerning it. 

This world would be so bland without culture and there would be no life moving these cultures if it were not for communication between and amongst the entities which constitute these cultures, whether legal, political, ethnic or otherwise.

Storytelling, Branding and Communication

This is a good example of a unique communication and unique story being told to the customers of this restaurant. 

The story is told after you have eaten those tasty fries with your burger and drink. 

What a great ending! 

Mark Zuckerberg on Communication

Emojis, GIFs and Expresing Ourselves Online

Emojis and GIFs express so much about the emotion we are feeling without having to use many words and without having to really be there in person to show that emotion to others.

How people express themselves online can often take the form of emojis, GIFS and other similar symbol or motion picture than words can do.

Words like LOL, LMAO, and other similar acronyms talks more about how we feel than actually feeling that from a person because since you cannot be there physically and in proximity to the person for those feelings to be felt in the "normal" sense, there is the use of codes and symbols that transmit these feelings to the receiving end.

This has to be done because since the various communities and persons which contact each other on the web have to express themselves, than of course there has to be symbols to transmit the feeling to the other being.

They are a communication code of a kind which has been developed in order to communicate our emotions through the use of symbols online. And it is really effective.

I remember watching the roast of Justin Bieber on Comedy Central and a lot of the jokes being said had to do with Emojis and at that moment I did realize the popularity of Emojis and even right now I'm using an upper case E when spelling Emoji, if that doesn't tell you something abou the importance of Emojis, oh man.

A lot of times people will say LOL as the code of "that make me laugh" and it doesn't necessarily have to mean "laughing out loud" the code can be defined in as many ways as can be interepreted. When I talk to a friend, sometimes I get send the Emoji which could be said to stand for the LOL acronym, which is a face with two tear drops coming out of the sides, and that of course communicates to me that the person is "laughing out loud." And that is just one emoji.

On an iPhone and iPad, there are categories of emojis which are: PEOPLE, NATURE, FOOD & DRINK, CELEBRATION, ACTIVITY, TRAVEL & PLACES, OBJECTS & SYMBOLS. Do people really generally talk about these things that they would merit an emoji for them? I guess so. You find under the PEOPLE category emotions for the various which would you expect a person in real life to have.

On Facebook Messenger, emojis have categories for HAPPY, LOVE, SAD, EATING, CELEBRATING, ACTIVE, WORKING, SLEEPY, ANGRY and CONFUSED and there are other emojis in the form of animations or cartoon-like characters which also express emotions.

GIFs have become an increasignly popular way of expressing emotions by using moving pictures to express an emotion instead of a static symbol. I personally love using GIFs because they are so funny sometimes and they communicate just the right feeling that I want to get across.

You have really to think about how much effort is put into making a communication of emotion playful and creative on these messaging systems and platforms and the amount of effort placed in being able to express emotions through symbols on the web.

It all comes down making a communication happen and making communication which will be understood by the receiver. A receiver who is a real person and real feelings and who responds to a communication filled with life.

The point is that all of this is done in order to communicate feelings through symbols and codes on devices and computers to real human beings since they are the medium through which communication is happening to a person to person or interpersonal or public relationships.

That is how important communication and communication of feelings is on these platforms. That is how important the human element is to these web applications and communication platforms.For it were not for this human element, these networks would be useless and would be lifeless.

Communication and Velocity

A component of communication is velocity or speed of communication.

Depending on how fast the speed of the communication is and how fast it reaches its intended place, determines a lot about that communication and it tells you a lot about that communication which was transferred and the form of communication which was used.

Faster communication and fast response to a communication is way more desirable than a lagging, sluggish or what is worse: communication that never originates and never reaches its intended target or a communication which is never responded to and a communication which is answered to long after it arrived.

This applies to any area of a company, internal and/or external (think of the last time you had to wait and listen for several minutes to a computer automated voice when calling a corporation like this.)

It applies to interpersonal relationships and public relationships (think of the last time you did not get an answer to your question. How did that make you feel?)

It applies to computers and computing machines (think of the last time you used a very slow internet connection. How did you feel?)

It applies to all areas of life really.

Next time you talk to someone, send someone a message or a text or are having a conversation with that person or when you call a company or corporation to ask about a product or for customer support, take a notice of how fast is their response time and how fast they are to answer your questions and that will tell you a lot about them.

Blogging and Communication

Writing a blog is about communicating an original thought and original thinking to someone else.

Blogging is essentially communicating an idea to an intended recipient. That is all it really is.

Communicating an original thought and idea is being able to set on a digital paper words you will find no where else written in the same way that you have written them because no one else is like YOU.

One of the reasons of writing a blog is to set yourself apart from others in terms of knowledge. Not everyone knows what you know and others will find it valuable that you are sharing your knowledge with them even though they may despise you for doing so, they will respect you for doing it.

As with any communication, it has a starting point and a reaching point

Communication happens to you or you make the communication happen.

As any real communication does, the communication reaches the intended recipient and produces the intended effect in that person or group. That is a real and true communication.

As it applies to blogging (and any writing really), what is being communicated has to have value to the other person or group to whom the communication is being done to because that is when a real communication has taken place.

A real and genuine communication and valuable communication has happened when what you have said has really changed something about the person or group reading it and they have taken from it something more than just what they thought they would be reading and they know that the time taken to read your blog has been time well spent because they have finished reading the blog satisfied that they made the right decision in reading your thoughts and they are interested in reading more about you have to say and they have decided in their minds that you are a valuable source of information.

Sharing on the Web

One of the most amazing features of the online experience today is being enabled and being able to share so much online from platform to platform, website to website or any other combination of this.

Anyone can be watching a video at Youtube and can, in seconds, share it to their Twitter or their Google + or Blog.

If you want to share a book you have written you can upload it so easily unto the net and make it available to millions and millions of people or if their is a book you think people should know about, you can scan that book and upload it to a site like archive.org and you have made that book available to millions and millions of people.

Websites such as archive.org, gutenberg.org and Google with their Google Books make so many books available and accesible to so many millions of people for intellectual consumption and most of those books are so valuable to so many people and what is more, a lot of these books are given freely to the public for their enjoyment and intellectual and educational development in whatever subject the books are about. Talk about a humane service to humanity. Making these books accessible like that to so many people is just an indication of lots of goodwill for humanity. Just think of the amount of time and work which had to be put in to make these books available online in digital format. Microsoft has given so much money to these projects, for the purpose of sharing knowledge to humanity.

At that time when it first started, Napster was just the place to be to network about music and by doing that you got to know other people who were sharing their music online so you woudn't have to go and buy it (or steal it lol) at the store or mall. I remember using that program so much and although at the time I did not really understand peer-to-peer file sharing, I would download so much music from Napster that I would sometimes leave the computer on all night so that I could get that album because having that music was really needed by me at that time. I actually remember using AOL disks to get online because I wanted so bad to be online.

Another way of sharing now has come into existence and that is sharing money via peer-to-peer networks. The money is known as bitcoin and although bitcoin is not the only digital money which has existed and exists, bitcoin is the current agreed upon digital currency which can be exchanged for the fiat of countries as well as other digital currencies. And the technology behind it is totally about communication for it were not so, the technology would not work because it is based on an Internet and Web which is totally dependent on the communication of computers and networks for it to work at all.

With the existence of bitcoin, money can be shared across computer networks and social media platforms with an ease that actually scares people.It doesn't scare me. I'm really impressed by the speed of communication of bitcoin and it is what I really like about it and I really like that it is all done via computers and devices. That is really so cool to me. I'm a person who uses a device almost all day and knowing that with a few clicks I can send and receive money without having to use a bank is so wonderful to me and not only that, the idea that money is in the hands of a social network which is governed by people and not just in the hands of a few authoritative persons or institutions is such good news to hear. There is so much freedom there. The way I look at it, there has been a shift from the US dollar being the currency used to base the value of other currencies to the US dollar being the currency used as the base of the value of the bitcoin and bitcoin is governed by the people not by institutions which have been established for more than a hundred years. So there has definitely been a change there.

If you think about it, you can now send real money electronically by use of a currency that totally exists on computer networks and that, so far as recorded history is concerned, has not existed ever. Money has evolved.

Sharing online is becoming very fast and the future of sharing online is very interesting indeed and I"m looking forward to its developments.