As my son, Lachlan, was tapping away in a Facebook chat with his girlfriend, I was thinking about how the internet, social media, emails, smsing, etc has changed the way we communicate, particularly from a trust point of view.
I know myself that, sometimes, it’s easier to write things down, type them, sms or email them than it is to say things directly to someone. My husband, Peter, sms’s me lovely things when I’m travelling that I don’t think he’s ever said to my face! J
There seems to be a freedom for honesty that is available online that we have lost, or maybe never really developed as a skill in our face to face relationships. This has its positives (the lovely sms’s while I’m away), and it’s negatives (the dreadful, rude comments that people feel free to make in blogs, on Facebook and YouTube).
