Question 57 Face-to-face communication is better than other types of communication

Question 57

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Face-to-face communication is better than other types of communication. such as letters, e-mail, or telephone calls. Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.


Answer

Face-to-face communication is a good medium to tell our feeling to the others. We can know much more information from not only their voices but also their faces. However, personally, I do not think face-to-face communication is always the best. Other communication ways have their own advantages. I will write them in every way as follows.

To begin with, letters are sometimes better. When we get letters from people we are familiar with, we feel happy. For that reason, I try to send letters whenever I travel overseas. I am also fun when I write the letters at the time. I imagine the people' faces who will get the letters. We do not imagine the opposite's face in face-to-face communication because we can see his or her face directly. Of course, letters have a disadvantage. Some of the letters do not reach Japan because letter systems are loose in countries. Yet, we do not have to care that. We need to be magnificent when we write a letter abroad. Happenings will amplify our travel more excitingly.

Moreover, e-mail is also apparently better in a situation. A friend of mine went to New York to study. He was studying physics as a PhDs student in Japan. He sometimes visited there because it had a big acceleration. One day, he needed to talk with his boss. He tried to talk to tell his plan with face-to-face communication, but the boss did not understand what he said. The boss said that he should write e-mail right now. They talked each other with e-mail at the same room. In this case, e-mail is better than face-to-face communication. They could exchange their thoughts with only e-mail.

Lastly, I will write why people use telephone call. It is also supreme to face-to-face communication in a situation. Some people talk for many hours with telephone call, athough they can talk directly. For example, a person has a friend, and they are neighborhood. They can see each other in a few minutes. Face-to-face communication looks better because they live closely, but they select to call. I guess the reason that they do not like to move every time they talk. Probably, it is burdensome to get out at night. To talk with telephone line is easier, and they are satisfied without face-to-face communication.

To sum up, face-to-face communication is not always the best. We should consider other media's advantages. They have developed with the reasons they are needed. Nobody would use the ways if face-to-face communication was the best.