Assignment 1

Does it matter if an interaction occurs face to face? Why? What suppositions do you bring to bear in thinking about this question?

It absolutely matters if an interaction occurs face to face and a great example was yesterday in class, because the Professor wasn't there and the instructions were just posted on the blog you could tell just by listening to other students mumbling about before we created our circle, that many of us were confused. I think it is must easier to hold an interaction face to face because not only is it more genuine, but it also helps to clarify the point one is trying to make to the other. If we (the students) were to have that entire conversation we had in class through our blogs, I honestly probably would not have taken the time to read everyone's entry and really take the time to try and figure out the point they were trying to make. Face to face interaction is especially important because I feel it make the conversation real. What I mean by that is online you can be whoever you want to be, you can lie all you want an no one will know because they don't see who that are talking to; they may believe it's one person when in reality it can be someone else. Face to face interaction is also shows that you care and are interested at the topic being discussed. When you are interacting with someone face to face, it is easier to have in depth discussions and tell how someone really feels about the subject due to their facial expressions and body language. As mentioned in the article What a face can do by Richard Rushton, he says that a face "represents or expresses the inner feelings of a person," and I feel that is someone you can not describe through words. I feel like there one cannot grasp the real emotion one is feeling through a blog or something of the like because they cannot show it. A great example of this is when someone makes you "look you in the eye," I think they do this to show the seriousness of the matter as opposed to just repeating yourself over and over again.

After recalling our first class I can't help but notice how as a group we decided to continue our discuss by creating a circle so everyone could look at each other. As you looked around the room you could tell the people who were confused, the people who were deep in though, and those who just didn't seem to care; all in all I find it amusing because we basically created that circle so we could see everyone's faces to further our discussion.