Now Playing : Life and Love and Why

Here goes ... my first attempt at this blog. This is about the lessons that were discussed this week. Since the things that were taken up are terms, what I'm going to do is write the term, it's definition which was presented by the teacher and then after I'll give my insights, comments, etc. Okay? Okay!

Let's begin. (I'm taking notes from my notebook, so if I miss something, sorry :( )

1. Intrapersonal - Communication with one's self.

 My thoughts/understanding : For me, it's an understanding of one's self, and also knowing your strengths and weaknesses. I've encountered a lot of text saying that people who are quiet, prefers to be alone are "intra personal people". Personally, I'm one of them. I'm more of a "me" person rather than an "us" person. Of course I do get along with other people, I have groups of friends, it's just that I'm more comfortable with being alone or better yet with someone special to me. (More on that later.)

2. Interpersonal - Communication between people; face-to-face communication

My thoughts/understanding : Here's something which I'm not really good at. Interpersonal communication, I feel that I suck at this aspect because for me interpersonal means that in your first meeting with new people you can immediately feel at ease with them when talking. There's no awkward silence after you ask each other's names, what school you go into, what major are you taking, what's your job, etc. You know something which is difficult here in Ateneo? Sometimes, it's hard to find a common ground when talking with someone especially if that someone came from an exclusive Manila school and the other speaker came from the province. People have different backgrounds, and usually people who have the same background are the ones who get along pretty well. I've encountered lots of people who I had a difficult time in talking to because there was nothing in common between us and there were times that you had the confidence of talking to them but they weren't interested to talk to you because they felt they were superior to you because they own their own car and you don't have one for yourself.

These are personal encounters by the way. That's why I feel that my interpersonal side is not well-developed. But in other cases, I can be a fun guy to talk to when a particular person has become close to me. An example is my girlfriend, here in school I'm usually a quiet person but when with someone I'm really close to, like her, I tend to talk --- a lot. Another example is my mom. "Selective Interpersonal-ism" if you may.

3. Group Communication - communication  among a group of people.

My thoughts/understanding : Much like Interpersonal Communication; Group Communication focuses on a particular group of people in which the persona belongs to unlike Interpersonal Communication which to my understanding focuses on every person.

4. Organizational Communication - Communication within and among large and extended environments that are goal and process - oriented.

My thoughts/understanding : This is really interesting for me, and I'm also excited that we're taking this up in class. It's more for business, and to develop managerial skills.

5. Public Communication - Communication to a large group of listeners.

My thoughts/understanding : I think this communication skill also branches out from Interpersonal Communication because it also deals with communication with different kinds of people but in a more organized scale. I usually relate "Public Communication" with speeches, politicians, mass, etc. For me, in this type of communication one should consider the crowd they're speaking to so they can gauge words they will use.

and then there's Mass Communication, which all of us are familiar with, this one is related to media and  Intercultural Communication, which tackles communication with people with different cultures.

Communication is really a major part of our lives, we use it to obviously, communicate with each other, understand one another and share information.The Communication Industry is also booming here in the Philippines. Media, print, IT, communication is literally everywhere.

As you may had noticed, what I wrote got shorter and shorter, because, honestly, I can't think of something to put or relate in there. The two major things for me that I poured my thoughts into were Intrapersonal and Interpersonal communication. Because these two strike me the most and had a really major impact in my life.

This is the end of my first "official" blog entry. Hopefully, it's good and acceptable.

One last thing, the title is not related to the blog entry itself. I just type in the name of the song that is currently playing when I'm done with my blog. This is a blog after all.

If you have a comment or suggestion, don't be shy. :)

Now playing : "Intro" by HU

Hello to whoever is reading this entry right now. This is merely an introduction, as the title says, of the things to come here. I made this blog for our "post-a-blog-entry-every-week" in our Communications class. This is a blog after all so I might stray from the "required points". Besides from the usual stuff, the things which we are required to write about like class discussions I MIGHT also put in some personal and random stuff that might be, in one way or another related or not to the class discussion of that particular week.

Anyway ... time to start this blog. :)