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Essay / Anne Carson's Origins of Human Communication...
For example, in an age without the Internet, people generally share information with a limited number of people. As people now share more personal information with a wider audience via online platforms, communication takes place in a more informal and significantly more open space. These new settings are changing our linguistic culture as well as the way we interact. What Facebook did was allow us to communicate with more people on a global scale, in a way comparable to what we could do locally. This is great because it means we keep friendships alive across great distances, but it also increases the demands on an individual to maintain a much larger number of relationships simultaneously. The result is ever-increasing communication speed. Facebook allows people to communicate quickly, effectively and, above all, efficiently because written exchanges are concise and shared among all the friends you are connected with, meaning all you have to do is write to them