Communication Gaps In Messaging

Communication is largely non-verbal. Your body language and your facial expressions add important context to your message.

For a person who forgets that their message lacks their emotional context, understanding this well can go a long way in communicating better over SMS, FB or Twitter.

Yeah right, we are talking about people who are differently abled - when they have to communicate the same message in a line or two, without being able to use their body language or facial expressions. They send messages that have become emotionally ambiguous when being translated into text.

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While others, better abled, can be aware of such limitations of differently abled people, there are things that differently abled people can do to overcome their weakness.

One of the exercises I recommend is adding a #hash-tag describing their emotion with their messages. Heres a list of #hash-tags and thats your LESSON 1.

#impressed , #high-five , #cute , #moved , #happy , #joyous , #sarcastic , #with-all-my-heart , #feeling-like-the-old-days , #cheerful-post

And, don’t forget to add a double ## hash-tag to express a stronger sense of the feeling. Add some #love to your messages when not sure. Give the right feedback that your friends deserve.