题目

Has the Intrenet narrowed or increased the distance between people why?

提问时间：2020-07-24

答案

OK.
I'm gonna first tell you a story. Last year, I was working for a media company. Whenever I check my e-mail in the office, I get a lot of e-mails from all around the world. I get e-mails from people who live on the other side of the globe, from the other side of the earth, but I also get e-mails from people who's just sitting on the other side of my office. I bring up this example because I believe it shows well the advantages and disadvantages the Internet serves as a tool for people communicating. Of course, if two people are very distant away from one another, when they are very far away from one another, e-mail is a very important powerful tool. The Internet serves as a very good powerful tool. If you need to tell the other person something, you just type in words and write an e-mail. And then, within seconds, the e-mail is sent to the other side of the earth. That's, of course, very powerful. But when people are sitting so close, they are living so close to one another, it's not a large distance, we shouldn't use Internet so much as a communicating tool. Take my example that I mentioned earlier, employers, they have to send e-mails back and forth even when they are sitting in the same office, when they are supposed to walk just a few steps away and tell the other person what they would like to tell them. But they, instead, send e-mails. And we have to check the e-mail every now and then because every five minutes or every ten minutes we get information to tell us what we are supposed to do. Of course, what this will lead us to is low efficiency when you are working, also not concentrated when you are working. It also leads to a communication breakdown.