Communication FUNdamentals

Aug. 5, 2008

It's ok to blast someone. It's just an email, isn't it?

My best friend lives in another state and I've never met her!  Odd. isn't it?   Yet it's true.  Through the miracle of technology, I am able to have a very close relationship with several people I have never met in person!  If it weren't for the nternet and the telephone, I would have missed out on the blessings and fellowship of knowing them at all!  The information age has it's blessings, but the very nature of the fact that we are unable to see those we email face-to-face, means that there is often a sort of disconnect among us.  People often feel that there is no real person behind the email.  It can appear that there is no living breathing human being behind that blog or website who has feelings just as we do.    However, just because the recipient cannot see you, or more specifically, you don't have to see them, doesn't mean they don't have feelings!  It is tempting to be more blunt or less careful with the feelings of those we meet in cyberspace.  We need to remember that, just as we are sitting here behind our computers with our own thoughts, feelings, fears and failings, so are those on the receiving end of our cyber communication.  Please...Don't type anything in an email that you wouldn't dare say face-to-face.  "Let your conversation always be full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone." -Colossians 4:6 From JoJo's Purple Crayon... Where's FIMM?  Did you find himm this week? FIMM is now hiding on a new page on the Art of Eloquence site.  To be entered into the drawing to win a free Art of Eloquence eProduct of YOUR CHOICE, find the only Foot in Mouth Man picture that looks different from all the rest and email us telling us what he looks like and where you found himm!

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