Greetings!
Source
The advent of technology has really changed the narratives of everything in the world and even make things and life easier. Technology has taken the world from its crude, analog and static state to a digital state. How would the world have been without the aid of technology? Well, to me , the world who have been setback for million years. But thanks to the advent of technology which has made every aspect of human life easy peasy.
When talking about the wonders technology has done and brought to human race and life, we will not have enough time to state, mention and count them all. But, because of the time factor in listing all these wonders, I will just like to talk about one of those things that have been made easier by technology which is communication.
Communication which is a way of interacting and having discussion with others has really being made easy by technology in the recent times. Gone are the days when the post office are made active through the posting of letters and other means of crude communication. There were even times when technology was just coming up. In those times, people always go to the Nitel call centre to make their calls. But now, that's no more the case as technology has brought about ease and comfort to everyone and every home.
Even, in history we were told that our forefathers have a means of communing with other communities then. We were told that, they have things that symbolize the kind of message to be sent maybe to the other communities or individual persons. These things they would be wrapped and sent maybe through the palace messangers or via the sea with the thing put in a bottle and dropped on the sea. well, in those crude days, there's nothing like writing as most of them were not literate.
Also, there's times in the past that, most of those in relationships back then have or use various means to communicate to themselves, someone once told me that back then when he was in courtship with his wife, he used to sent messages through someone going to his then fiance community to the fiance via verbal message. Can you now see the stress and the openness in the means of communication back then. Another man told me that, he used to throw stones on the roof of the then girlfriend back in the ages just to inform her of his presence and to meet him where they used to meet. What a crude way of communication.
Source
But with all these, technology as brought about a rapid and easy change to all these means of communication. Now, to have and maintain a distance relationship with one to be wife or husband comes with little or no barrier or stress. The advent of technological gadgets such as the PC, the phone has made it easy for easy access to communication, even not to the to be wife or husband alone, but to married men and women who are living separately and maintaining distant relationships maybe due to the nature of their jobs and others.
Also, the advent of media apps , such as X, WhatsApp, print media and social media has been it to easy to maintain distant relationships. One can just stay in the comfort of his or her room and converse with his or her spouse or spouse to be without any stress or open secret. it's just as simple as that. Though, the advent of technology comes with it own challenges such as network problem and so on, but overall, its commendable.
Sometimes ago, when I was in courtship, I and my fiance maintained a distant relationship and many atimes we talked and conversed on phone than seeing ourselves.
In years back during our courtship, it only take us three times a month to meet each other physical and the remaining days are meant to be spent in the comfort of our different rooms located in different cities. It might be through phone call, chats video call or any other means that technology has presented to us just to make life easy for us. The only thing needed by us is to recharge our phone or subscribe to the needed data bundle. Apart from this making life easier for us, it also save our time, energyand cost. Thanks to the aid and advent of technology that has made that easy. Sometimes we dropped messages for ourselves via mail, fax, sms, WhatsApp.and other means of technological communication.
Though, communication in technology comes with it own disadvantages such as lying, some if not for the help of video call are fond of lying about their whereabouts to their spouses or the person they are into relationship with, which is not good enough, apart from this, there's this natural feelings that technology cannot take care when it comes to marital relationships. So, like I said earlier, the challenges are so numerous, but in all, technology has really help in aiding the channels of relationship communication from the send- message-medium-receiver. God bless technology.
This is my entry to the hivenaija weekly prompt.
Thanks for reading.
Pictures sourced.