{"id":4151,"date":"2012-10-11T10:12:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T14:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2024-06-19T07:25:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:25:04","slug":"the-art-of-communication-relationships-and-the-trappings-of-nomadic-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/the-art-of-communication-relationships-and-the-trappings-of-nomadic-living\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Communication, Relationships, and the Trappings of Nomadic Living"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cDo you know this guy?\u201d an online colleague asked me (via email) in reference to somebody who contacted her about working together and had introduced himself by saying he&#8217;d been referred by me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t recall the guy, and I hadn&#8217;t directly referred him. His email to her was brief and a little vague, and in this day and age when website owners are assailed by countless unsolicited requests, his email looked like it could be yet another in this realm (albeit a creative one that was more than blanket spam).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So what did my colleague do? She sent a scathing reply on the assumption he was a spam marketer, telling him where he could stick his proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turns out, I did know the guy. <em>(Whoops.)<\/em> He was a reader I had corresponded with at some length a year ago, but I had no archives of this conversation which is why I couldn&#8217;t recall if I knew him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was surprised and offended by my colleague&#8217;s reply, and after a little peace-making on my part, they apologized to one another and ensued their communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this got me to thinking: <strong>at what point do we feel like we have a \u201crelationship\u201d with somebody we only know online?<\/strong> My reader felt a genuine connection to me, and although my emails to him were heartfelt (and lengthy!), I also field about 50 emails per day and am hard-pressed to recall ones from over a month ago, much less a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our \u201crelationship\u201d had endured time in his eyes longer than it had in mine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This post was originally published in 2012. It has since been updated for accuracy of links and content. <\/em><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Constitutes a \u201cRelationship\u201d?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you only know somebody online, to what extent is it a relationship (platonic or otherwise)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>People meet and fall in love online regularly, but <em>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s until they meet in person that it truly becomes a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/sordid-attempts-finding-love-on-the-road\/\">romance<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or am I old fashioned?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The nature of communication is changing dramatically, so maybe then too, should our definition of relationships. <\/strong><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Text vs Talk<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Studies are showing that adolescents (the emerging \u201ctech\u201d generation \u2013 <em>and the world&#8217;s future<\/em>) actually prefer to text each other than interact in person. It&#8217;s not a stretch; I&#8217;ve seen rooms full of teens all silently mesmerized by their smartphones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn&#8217;t just about teens either; <em>we&#8217;re all culprits<\/em>. My surprising moment in time on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/a-moment-in-time-on-a-toronto-subway\/\">Toronto subway<\/a> last year was testament to the fact that <strong>we all seem to prefer to plug in and zone out, rather than look up and interact with our environment<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember staying with a couple who were in the midst of some domestic difficulties. We all had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/location-independent\/\">online businesses<\/a>, and each day we would set up our respective \u201coffices\u201d in the same room together and dive into our laptops. <em>Unbeknownst to me, most of the time they were having massive arguments \u2013 via instant messaging<\/em> \u2013 right in front of me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I would have thought that leaving the room and actually verbally hashing it out would have been better for the relationship, but I&#8217;ll also admit that this isn&#8217;t the first couple I&#8217;ve known to prefer the written word over physical verbal communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Nora&#8217;s Note: 2017 &#8211; Little did I know where texting would get me in subsequent years. That time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/day-dumped-via-instant-message\/\">I was dumped via instant message<\/a>? Yeah&#8230;.good times.\u00a0<\/em><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Evolution (De-Evolution?) of English<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To facilitate communication in 140-character bites, status updates, texts, and emails, abbreviations have become the norm. Common ones like LOL have even made it into dictionaries, and the ever-present smiley face is becoming an accepted part of online communication \u2013 even in professional emails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>But what does this mean for the English language? When high-school and college graduates feel it&#8217;s appropriate to put smiley faces and common abbreviations in cover letters when applying for professional jobs? <\/strong><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Losing the Art of Interpersonal Communication<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>What will business meetings look like when they are led by the emerging generation who currently prefers <em>not<\/em> to communicate in person?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Is online social networking replacing physical networking? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What of the proverbial cocktail party? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is interpersonal communication no longer important? How will marriages survive when couples aren&#8217;t comfortable actually <em>talking<\/em> about things with one another?<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Isolation, Nomadic Living, and The Global Community<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m in this too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I lead a pretty busy online life. I have formidable followings on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hobonora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;and <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/facebook.com\/TheProfessionalHobo\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>. I field 50+ emails per day, and have thousands of readers of this site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>And in living a life of no fixed address for many years now, this global community of readers and online colleagues has been a life line, sometimes more than I&#8217;d like to admit. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s this online community that makes it easier for nomads to stay in touch with family and friends, create new online relationships with people sharing common interests, and also give them a sense of familiarity when everything else around them is foreign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I say \u201cthey\u201d, but I&#8217;d be lying if there weren&#8217;t some of \u201cme\u201d in this. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent a good chunk of my summer in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/the-swiss-life-random-observations\/\">Switzerland<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theprofessionalhobo.com\/traveling-without-moving-in-switzerland\/\">relative isolation<\/a>, needing some personal retreat and reflection time (and contending with the largely miserable weather that much of Europe saw this summer). 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