Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Purpose and tools of communication

Why do people communicate and which tools do they use to communicate?

People communicate to express their thoughts, feelings, ideas; opinions also to relate to one another and to fulfilled their social needs. From a very basic family conversation to the most complex scientific presentation, communication is the medium that helps us convey, receive and make sense of our world, it is how knowledge is gathered and disseminated, information propagated and culture recorded and shared, in short communication is the thread of life.

Numerous tools are used to communicate, from the most intimate and personal tool such as spoken and written words to the mass mediated forms such as television, radio and the Internet.

Communication is the link to our world, it is as vital as fire, air, water and other essential life sustaining elements, as social beings we can not function nor survive without it.

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