Wild Card Paper: Online Communication Is Changing Everything
Let’s face it most of us talk more through a screen than face-to-face these days. Whether it’s texting your roommate from across the room, sliding into someone’s DMs, or posting TikToks that express feelings you don’t want to say out loud, internet communication has completely changed how we connect with each other. But is that a good thing or a bad thing? The truth is, it's both online communication is weird, wonderful, and occasionally worrying. And honestly, we’ve only just started to understand how deep this digital rabbit hole goes. Not so long ago, if you wanted to send someone a message, you either called their house phone or wrote an email and hoped they checked it eventually. Fast-forward to today, and we’re living in the age of instant everything. Messaging apps like WhatsApp , Discord , and Snapchat let us have entire conversations using just emojis, memes, and GIFs. And while that's fun, it also shows how creative we've gotten with digital expression. Language...