After the economical crisis attacked the world, people prefer to use telephones or other communication tools for conferences or meetings in order to reduce the financial burden. It is true especailly for international companies which often need to communicate between countries. However, I believe there is no better way for communication than face-to-face method. There are many reasons why I think so, and here I present some of them.
First of all, communication includes body languages and other visible materials as well as verbal languages. Sometimes body languages can express more meaning than talking. For example, at schools, teachers stress what is important using body languages such as pointing out directly with their fingers. Also, people can make more effective communication with visible materials. Again, at schools, teachers can make more effective and interesting classes when using visible data and students can easily concentrate on the classes. Face-to-face communication is the only way which can exploit these visible materials and body languages.
In addition, through face-to-face communication, people can make more trustful and strong relationships. For face-to-face communication, people have to spend their time and money. Because human beings make economical decisions, this implies that their counterparts are more valuable than their time and money. Therefore, the counterpart can notice how important they are for the other just through having face-to-face communication. Besides, people can read other peopple's emotions through their faces. To grasp how other people feel is important for communications and it often happens to hurt other people unintentionally when we talk to them without watching their faces.
It is true that face-to-face communication is time- and money-consuimg type of communication. However, through face-to-face communication, people can use effective body languages and visibla materials and can understand how counterparts feel during communication. I firmly believe these benefits of face-to-face method is more suitable to the main purpose of communication and overweigh its demerits. |