Today was Saturday, and once again, I spent the day at work. When I got home, I collapsed on my bed and logged into the Facebook and mindlessly scrolled through my feed, chuckling at dumb memes and tagging my friends in them.

For my friends who don’t have Facebook, saved the memes to my camera roll and sent them either in our collective group chats, or via iMessage.

Retreospectively, by doing this, I raised the question about how I communicate via online media. Before I made a Facebook account, my only means of communication was via Instagram and Snapchat, but in the years since, I have found that Facebook has opened up a variety of different modes of connection. The first and most obvious would be Messenger, Facebook’s own messaging service, followed by Timelines, a place where Friends are able to post public photos, messages, videos and various other content. The last, which has become much more widely used in recent years since the meme renaissance would be the “tagging” feature, which allows for people to directly link others to a post on Facebook.

Sometimes I find myself talking to a specific person on several platforms at once; sending photos via Snapchat, messaging via iMessage, tagging each other in memes via Facebook, and sending pictures to each other on Instagram. This seems so bizarre to me, communication is amplified and multiplied by four or five times. However, this poses a larger question: does the quality of the communication reduce as the modes of communication increases?