Using the Appropriate Communication Media (Chapter 8):
A time I did not use the most appropriate medium ofcommunication was when I was having a heated discussion with mybest friend Julia about her lying to me that she was hanging outwith her other friends and telling me she was at a family thing sothat I wouldn’t ask to come and hang out with them. I was drivinghome from work and had some of her clothes with me that I was goingto drop off at her house because she said she couldn’t hang outthat day and wouldn’t be able to pick up her clothes; when I got toher place, her mother told me she was in her room with Marissa,Sydney, and Abby. I immediately left and drove home. I confrontedJulia over text message about her lying to me and betraying mytrust. The conversation was getting very intense, and it was hardto convey what emotions were being felt while reading the textmessages. We ended up not talking for a few weeks until we ran intoeach other at school and could no longer avoid talking to eachother. We ended up going to Julia’s house and talking everythingthrough, and we have been friends ever since. The form ofcommunication that was being used was text messaging during theinitial fight. I should not have confronted Julia over textmessaging and instead asked her to meet face-to-face to talkthrough the problem. I now know from that experience it is not bestto have meaningful conversations over text messaging because itlacks emotion, and people can perceive that a message is in a toneof anger when it actually has a neutral tone. I will forever try tohave meaningful conversations face-to-face because it is the bestform of communication and has the highest richness of transmittingmeaning to the receiver during a conversation.
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Using the Appropriate Communication Media (Chapter 8): A time I did not use the most appropriate medium of communication
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