By day five of consistent blogging, I had come to an incredibly interesting question: does the quality of the communication reduce as the modes of communication increases?

This question was raised by noticing that I was using several platforms to communicate with the same person at the same time. For example, I would Snapchat my best friend the snack I was eating while also tagging him in memes on Facebook. Our conversations on each respective platform were disjointed and had no profound meaning or purpose, and didn’t have a fulfilling ending. Instead, they just broke off after one of us got busy or forgot to reply.

Instead of maintaining a steady and sustaining conversation that involved equal participation via a singular platform, I communicated trivial occurrences that happen in my day to day life via a variety of applications. I maintained these lighthearted conversations in my busy life and was able to stay in touch with the people I cared about without having to get stuck in a drawn-out conversation. For a bad replier such as myself, these are convenient, however the quality of the conversations declined significantly.

In this day and age, the conversations we have take place predominantly online, and it is here that communication has evolved most. Social media enables us to have multiple conversations at one time, when it was only less than four decades ago that conversations prominently took place face-to-face.

So, does the quality of a conversation reduce when the amount of platforms that it takes place on increases? Certainly. My conversations became broken and less profound when the amount of platforms multiplied.