People who communicate will always have problems in the process of communicating. These problems in communicating can also lead to various other social based problems. People who had communication based social problems would generally be facing problems in at least one of three different areas of nonverbal communication: reading nonverbal cues; understanding their social meaning; and coming up with options for resolving a social conflict, according to Clark McKown of the Rush Neurobehavioral Center in Chicago.
A person especially a child or a youth who are not quite familiar with society's cues and gestures for example, simply may not notice a person's scowl of impatience or understand what a tapped foot means. He or she may even have trouble reconciling the desires of a friend with her own or what cues would fit into what message in terms of appropriacy. That is why it is relevant to analyze the 'Relevance Theory' (no pun intended) put forth by Sperber adn Wilson(1995). This is due to the fact that the theory fowards a simple but hugely significant notion that people would only put focus on what is relevant to them. Thus, if we want to communicate better, we should make a huge effoprt in sensing what is relevant to our receiver.
I read a newspaper article recently on social networking. The younger generation these days are so engrossed with social networking that they spend an obssessive amount of time on social networks to communicate with their peers instead of meeting up in person. Thus, most teenagers tend to struggle in reading social cues and communicating proficiently. In my young opinion, parents should control the amount of time children spend on social networking. It is not completely wrong to communicate with our friends through Facebook and Myspace but there should be a balance in everything. :)
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i agree with stephanie2409