IDG Contributor Network: You said, tweeted, texted, instant messaged, posted, shared, liked, emailed what?!?
The bulk of today's job-related dialogue, thanks to the revolution IT started, happens between people with multiple tasks and deadlines who aren't face to face or even talking on the phone.
In our hyper-connected, handheld-device-dominated world, a number of unavoidable truths affecting our personal and work-based relationships have emerged or taken on a new force:
One: Whatever we send out electronically lives forever, everywhere. It has an unprecedented ability to shape others' perceptions of you, despite any later heartfelt attempt to explain your intemperate zingers.
Two: These electronic, Web-based interactions happen completely outside the context of the intricate, subtle and diverse visual and auditory feedback that has shaped and advanced human culture for most of our evolutionary history.
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