Is WhatsApp really helping you or making you dependent.....?
Sudhir Patankar
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Sudhir Patankar
Managing Director at "PATSOL Aerospace", An Engineering and Projects Company - "Different Manufacturing to Differently Manufactured" PAT Productivity Solutions Pvt. Ltd. India
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Addictive "What's App" - Clashes & Crashes - Families & Factories !
What are the limits of using WhatsApp whether Personal or Professional ?
Social Networking on one hand has helped to improved the speed of communication but on the other hand has destroyed the very basis of communication.
Why WhatsApp has crashed the stocks of many Cos. as well as destroyed families of many.....without you realizing the reality ?
Remember......You can change your company but you cannot change your family because they are your blood and bone. Talk to them and stop messaging them. Spend time with them and make them feel special.
Let us see where things started going wrong :
(P)OSTURES & GESTURES - How do you use hand gestures? Stance?
(E)YE CONTACT - How’s your “Lighthouse”?
(O)RIENTATION - How do you position yourself?
(P)RESENTATION - How do you deliver your message?
(L)OOKS - Are your looks, appearance, dress important?
(E)PRESSIONS OF EMOTION - Are you using facial expressions to express emotion?
7% WORDS - Words are only labels and the listeners put their own interpretation on speakers words
38% PARALINGUISTIC - The way in which something is said - the accent, tone and voice modulation is important to the listener.
55% BODY LANGUAGE - What a speaker looks like while delivering a message affects the listener’s understanding most.
The Meaning of Communication :
Communication is a dynamic process…
through this process we convey a thought or feeling to someone else.
how it is received depends on a set of events, stimuli, that person is exposed to.
how you say what you say plays an important role in communication.
4 Levels of Listening
The Non-Listener
The Marginal Listener
The Evaluative Listener
The Active Listener
Many company who used to earlier have the "old fashioned" review meetings over a cup of tea on daily, weekly, monthly basis at various level and CFT have now opted for communicating with their employees on WhatsApp. Whether it is pertains to Minutes of certain meeting or Circulars or some important feed back from customer.
Though the communication adopted through WhatsApp is fast transmission to the required groups and network, the basic review mechanism with the responsibility still remains ambiguous. The receiver can always get away by saying "Did not receive the message as 3G or Wifi was not working" and another bagful of excuse to get away from performing their duties or clearing backlogs.
Several Companies who were using WhatsApp as the main media of communication have reverted back to the old fashioned way of review in meeting rooms and making every one answerable for what they are responsible to deliver.
On personal communication, many marriages & relationships are on the verge of getting broken either due to misunderstanding of the spouse engagements on the smart phone or drifting away.
We need to understand the difference between a virtual and our real lives. By maintaining a correct balance of both can make our lives enjoyable otherwise we will continue to live in a false bliss of life.
Many may not agree with this article and may turn a blind eye in ignorance. It is never too late to correct what can be undone before it is too late.
Remember......You can change your company but you cannot change your family because they are your blood and bone. Talk to them and stop messaging them. Spend time with them and make them feel special.
TALK-TALK-TALK
Stop using those fingers to press messages instead use them to bless some one.
Is this how you really feel with WhatsApp but do not know to how to get out of the Hangover.......hangon.....we will give you an antidote :
- You have to be careful about your D.P all the time! Because? Colleagues, ex-colleagues, future boss, mummy, papa, jijai, chachaji, taiji, pados wali auntyand who not is there!
- 2. People specially peep into your status so that they can ask, “What happened? Is everything okay?” ( Let me have some gossip from your life.)
- 3. Yes, please! First you stalk me and then judge my life with my last seen. 5 a.m? “Omg! She was up whole night! With whom she is going around? Or is she cheating on her boyfriend?”
- 4. Why the hell people add random people in random groups? Should I post my number on a notice board as well?
- 5. And then you have unknown numbers with cheesiest of images to message and ask, “Hi, there?”
- 6. Plus, of course it eats half of the time of my life!
- 7. I don’t know what sleeping on time means?
- 8. And even if there is no buzz, I am still scrolling through my Whatsapp contacts.
- 9. Wanna know more? Just have a look at the unnecessary images and videos that add up to my gallery everyday! *Images can’t be shown here*
- 10. It hampers your personal space when your professional colleagues send- “Hi!”
- 11. When you are lost in an endless thread of conversation where you are unaware of the context and you feel like..
- 12. The worst! Even when you don’t want to reply people catch you online or see the blue ticks if you have read and still not replied!
- I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO?
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WAKE UP..........to the beautiful life in front you
Are you a WhatsApp addict ?
Andidote : How To Overcome?
Beside all the advantages the disadvantage is warned by professor of Psychology at the University of the Basque Country, Enrique Echeburúa.
WhatsApp 'Status' feature is so good that it creates a familiar environment. For Example: Neha is online but not yet responded, Ayan is always online and gives instant response, Arbaaz was last seen on 16/03/2016 at 2:00 AM, John status cannot be seen because he blocked me etc. These are the detail which creates a great impact on mind. Even if you are not close to your WhatsApp contact, just know enough to chat, still this virtual interaction has great impact than physical. Keep reading to explore more.
Footprints (Status) of WhatsApp is strong enough to fall in LOVE, Misunderstanding, Hatred and many other physiological response. If someone wants to use WhatsApp in irrational way, it is very dangerous tool to control mind and trace location. Besides the Native part, this service also has positive sides because it's free and great text based communication tool that support sharing of Multimedia like Photos, Videos, Voice Mail and Mp3. You can share your things from anywhere around the world, just internet needed.
You might have observed that in party or any sort of gathering, if any of your friend is long sitting in corner operating his cell phone. Well, this is another major issues of this addictive Messenger. The impacts is are so powerful that users left the real world interest, their entire emotion is restricted to App, they get happy or sad depending on the reply they get from other users. WhatsApp users has serious addiction issue, they are hypnotized and controlled by other users. They are so in to it that they cannot help theme self without constantly chatting, replying and sharing all the time, regardless of the scenario.
The loss of control, serious interference in everyday life (at school or at work) and a constant dependence are some of the symptoms to identify people who have gone from WhatsApp users of social networking or sick.
The impact are serious on regular day to day life (At School at Work), it offers a pleasure that gives you nothing but constant dependency, you will kept on reading status, replying sharing and if something goes out of proportion you will kept fixing is entire day, this way it steal away your productive work and you end up lost your precious time, days and years.
How To Cure This Addiction?
Instead of chatting all day, put time limit and take some time out or watch movies, do some outdoor chores, handout with neighbors and friends, engage yourself with some other work etc. This way you can avoid falling prey to addiction.
This addiction can leads to psychological problem, if someone experiencing it, it's recommended to take yourself off from WhatsApp for 2 to 3 month. But before returning make sure that you learn to use wisely without getting too much attached with your WhatsApp friends. Emotional attachment on WhatsApp could leads to serious mental disturbance because it lacks of physical (Face to face real life interaction) Communication limitation.
It's a Myth that such type of addiction is only effecting teenagers but also mature people with some weakness may get addicted.
According to psychologist a communication which has no face, strangely can be more effective. Psychologically, the impact and imagination goes with text. A good text can create huge impact and similarly an irrational text can be disaster. The text becomes the sole means of emotion, you can easily hide your actual feeling and trick people.
According to research conducted recently, it came out that between 80 to 90% of people connected to internet use WhatsApp and only 5% to 9% use it properly.
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WAKE UP..........to the beautiful life in front you
Quality Assurance Manager at AMG Engineering and Machining | Director at PAT Productivity Solutions Corp.
8 年Very meaningful & so very true !
Managing Director
8 年Nice one
Sales Leader | Client Partner | Business Transformer | Servitization promoter | Art of possible explorer.
8 年finally an article I can use for my argument when I'm constantly asked why I'm not on Whatsapp...and to add facebook. right said. I was on whatsapp in the past ..It quickly became a spam counter when my number went to all people I barely knew even. good to know there are others in this Rarified field.
Managing Director at Sustainability Consultancy at New Delhi
8 年Nice article