Comments on: Human Communication. What has it turned into?

By: Lizz

Lizz — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:53:45 +0000

Thank you very much! Those skits kind of hit hard for me when we were rehearsing them. I never realized how often people are on phones and how much we don’t speak to one another face to face. I hope you had a great time at orientation!

By: Diane Nicolai

Diane Nicolai — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:38:29 +0000

Hi Lizz,
I attended the orientation with my son and I thought the skits were great especially the cell phone one. It really is sad watching kids go through daily life texting or on vacation w/ family texting. I feel like so much of life passes you by. Thanks for the blog…I enjoyed it.
Diane Nicolai

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:23:01 +0000

When I was visiting Seattle, my host kept threatening to steal my iPhone and take it to work with her so that I’d just concentrate on enjoying the city. In my defense, it’s more than a Phone and the GPS is quite handy. But anyway.

It is sort of discouraging to walk past a building to see that when many students get out of class, the first thing they do is call someone on the cell. When I went to college, I cherished speaking to classmates and others while walking the quad. Whether we were discussing the class we’d just had, weekend plans or just the weather, at least they were real conversations.

By: Katherine Raymond

Katherine Raymond — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:23:16 +0000

Sounds good. It’s really hard to do that even if you don’t have all of the nice apps and internet access on your phone. Nice challenge, Lizz.