Technologys Effect On Interpersonal Relationships

Modern technology may prove distracting on occasion, but at SXSW, a panel agreed that it can help people maintain and build interpersonal connections. One panelist was good enough to talk to WebProNews and explain her ideas on the subject, too.

Jenn Deering Davis, Cofounder of Appozite and CheapTweet Community Manager, observed in an interview with Abby Johnson, There are all these new tools that can augment our existing relationships.

In fact, she later added, I think the biggest thing is to just keep in touch with people and to use all of these tools that we have, whether your tool of choice is the telephone or something more newfangled like Twitter or Facebook.

The popularity of technology can lead to a difficult sort of balancing act, though. People can spend the majority of their day staring at their cell phones rather than talking to others, and Jenn said, I think were all still figuring out how to manage that and how to best do both, because our face-to-face relationships are important and we want to be here, but we also need to be keeping track of things.

She then concluded, We need both. We need the in-person, the face-to-face, and we need the online.

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