What has happened with communication?
We hated it when our parents would tell their friends something about us, or when relatives where updated on what we did and were doing, or going to do...neighbours would stop us in the street and would ask us how "it" went, and before you know it ...the grapevine came back to slap us in the face and choke us up a bit!
We hated the phone, the backyard fence and people coming over, to get that last bit of gossip for the day!
But thanks to technology and developments in communication, and the ease of access to these, we volunteer this information freely and without second thoughts.
The boss asks us how did "it" go, and we stop, look around, laugh with a smirk on our face and say "ah, so you saw it on my wall aye?".
But somehow, this free volunteering of information, "sound" advice to friends or relatives, business information to colleagues or competitors, has to be reviewed by those dishing it out, to ensure that they won't be "dishing it in".
The telephone limited our communication to the person we were talking to, or to those who dared to eavesdrop. These days, the receiver of our communication is not just one, but hundreds of the people we know, multiplied by hundreds and hundreds of the friends of friends of friends of friends, and some enemies!!
Before you know it, we are "coincidently" getting unsolicited messages and advertising about some item that we can buy or send money for, to improve our lives for the next decade in this mixed-up millennium.
Businesses can't afford to have their employees discussing company issues with friends whilst fertilising crops. No one needs to know the boss is a ratbag, chances are everyone has already guessed that for themselves, no one needs to know whether your company's products are not worth buying.... no one needs to know you will be looking for another job during summer break..... no one needs to see you tagged in a photo with a person you don't want your boss, partner, or spouse to know you know of.... etc. etc....
Before liable and slander suits could start flowing, companies, employees and everyone of a communicable age, should consider silencing the spams, and getting back to the traditional methods of communication, where people got together and exchanged ideas and thoughts in privacy....
.... and not in front of a 15inch portal to the world.
We hated it when our parents would tell their friends something about us, or when relatives where updated on what we did and were doing, or going to do...neighbours would stop us in the street and would ask us how "it" went, and before you know it ...the grapevine came back to slap us in the face and choke us up a bit!
We hated the phone, the backyard fence and people coming over, to get that last bit of gossip for the day!
But thanks to technology and developments in communication, and the ease of access to these, we volunteer this information freely and without second thoughts.
The boss asks us how did "it" go, and we stop, look around, laugh with a smirk on our face and say "ah, so you saw it on my wall aye?".
But somehow, this free volunteering of information, "sound" advice to friends or relatives, business information to colleagues or competitors, has to be reviewed by those dishing it out, to ensure that they won't be "dishing it in".
The telephone limited our communication to the person we were talking to, or to those who dared to eavesdrop. These days, the receiver of our communication is not just one, but hundreds of the people we know, multiplied by hundreds and hundreds of the friends of friends of friends of friends, and some enemies!!
Before you know it, we are "coincidently" getting unsolicited messages and advertising about some item that we can buy or send money for, to improve our lives for the next decade in this mixed-up millennium.
Businesses can't afford to have their employees discussing company issues with friends whilst fertilising crops. No one needs to know the boss is a ratbag, chances are everyone has already guessed that for themselves, no one needs to know whether your company's products are not worth buying.... no one needs to know you will be looking for another job during summer break..... no one needs to see you tagged in a photo with a person you don't want your boss, partner, or spouse to know you know of.... etc. etc....
Before liable and slander suits could start flowing, companies, employees and everyone of a communicable age, should consider silencing the spams, and getting back to the traditional methods of communication, where people got together and exchanged ideas and thoughts in privacy....
.... and not in front of a 15inch portal to the world.
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