Communication

There are many things in life we try to communicate with others.  There are many forms of communication we can use to try and convey our message, we can speak, we can write, we can draw, we can sing, and we can dance, to name a few.  As the list grows it becomes more and more obvious to us that communication, ultimately is simply and extension of expression.  That is to say that almost all forms of expression can be viewn as forms of communication.  Not all of these are conscious, some are unconscious, such as body language for example.

Communication is necessary not only to understand what the other person wants and needs but also to convey what we want and what we need, or indeed what we don't want or need.  The latter of which is so often conveyed via our unconscious communication, e.g. visible discomfort, awkwardness, or anxiety.  This is where communication online fails in comparison to face to face meetings 0 we only communicate conscious expressions online, we do not convey the unconscious expressions we often associate with weakness, moreover we don't make any conscious effort to convey these feelings because of the fear of being seen as weak.

For me I have a number of forms of communication but ultimately I would have to say that I fit the above description quite well, whether that be a positive or negative assertion about my personality type it stands as an admission of my habits.  I write, I draw, I listen to music and share it online to my twitter followers or my G+ followers and of course to my facebook friends.  All of this conveys my conscious communication.  When it comes to the unconscious communication, there are little to no forms of online communication that I use that enable those to be perceived.  I don't cam-to-cam on skype for example, my calls are voice only.  Almost all of my communication is written and I rarely interact with anyone I know online in the offline world. 

In contrast I would interact with my friends offline more than I would online.  Even if they have an online presence for the most part it will not interact with mine.  I could speak to you face to face or on the phone every single day, but never tweet you, never post to your wall etc to anyone online it would seems we don't interact at all.  Then again that is more or less the point, I try to keep my life online and my life offline completely separate.  It's rare that you would see a tweet about something going on in my life.  I only share those things with people I communicate with one on one.

It's sad when you read this and realise, unless you can transition from my online world into my offline world, you are likely never to know what I am really like.  Ironically I am being quite open about this fact here while saying little of what it really means.  If you understand what I mean then you actually have a chance of being one of the few to pass from online to offline.