The immediacy of communications is reducing our abilities to communicate!

I have recently signed-up to a service provided by VM Direct of the USA. They provide a video emailing product, suitable for mass mail-outs, the use of auto-responders, live broadcasts and double opt-ins to ensure we all adhere to the various Spam Acts. I am convinced that video emailing is the future of emailing. I am also convinced that the rise and rise of Twitter Speak and SMS Language is destroying our language and reducing the number of words in common usage, particularly, but not exclusively, amongst the young. This raises real concerns and I am reminded of Big Brother's desire to remove words from the language in George Orwell's 1984 because it reduced people's ability to think and hence increased his ability to control them. Whilst we know that that about 80% of communication "face to face" is non-verbal more and more "communication" is via various media on the Internet (using text) and of course pnoens of one description or another and thus we are missing out on many of the nuances of human interaction. Skype is playing its part and video emailing can help start to reduce that trend. We all have experienced times when our emails, texts and even blogs are written in one tone but are received in another tone and are thus have been misinterpreted. With video emailing we can add the emotion and tones that "fit"the message and can be redone if they don't sound just right. If you want to know more, either of my views or of the product before you take it please fell free to drop me a line or two. Sadly the file type of my video messaging is non compatible with the blog site and hence this typing of my thoughts. Contact me directly and I will happily video message by return. Cheers, Jonathan.