The Privilege Of Interpersonal Communication - 2986 Words

Throughout the years people have been given the privilege of interpersonal communication in many forms, such as letters, emails, texts, and social media. Letters were one of the very first mediums people used to communicate, and as the years went by technology improved, and emails were created. Emails served as a faster alternative for people in a business to contact someone else. Following that was the idea of text messaging, not only was it time efficient but also easier. That wasn’t the only thing connecting people all around the world though. Social media wasn’t the most popular to begin with, but as time went by, and it became more personal, people began to take a very big interest in it. Letters, emails, texts, and social media play†¦show more content†¦Important alphabets would include the Greek alphabet, which was the first phonemic alphabet. These are alphabets that are, â€Å"†¦sets of letters, usually arranged in a fixed order, each of which re presents one or more phonemes, both consonants and vowels, in the language they are used to write.† (Ager) From this came the two most widely used alphabets, the Latin/Roman and the Cyrillic alphabets, which have been adapted to write numerous languages. From the periods of these writing systems, letters would have begun to spring up as a form of communication between people who were not readily available to give information to immediately. We could also date the letter back from the more formal definition of the letter, where the definition talks about it being sent by mail or messenger. In this case, dates will be traced back to ancient centralized empires, where government documents and bulletins were circulated. However in the case of a messenger service, the first documented case of using couriers was in 2400 BC, in Egypt. Pharaohs typically used them for the distribution of their decrees in their territory. Since this time period, letter writing has exponentially grown to a larger source of people, especially in the early modern period. The 18th century in particular