Non-Verbal Communication Although Verbal Communication Is the

Non-Verbal Communication Although verbal communication is the basic, most common, and easiest form of communication, there is also the non-verbal communication that can be as effective as the verbal form. People communicate a lot. Communication is very important because it is from communication that we are able to do what we do now. Think of how you learned to walk when you were still a child if there is no process of communication that occurred between you and your parents who taught you to walk.

You may not know how to speak back then but through the non-verbal form of communication, you were able to learn to walk. There are so many instances where we can see the use and effectiveness of non-verbal form of communication. For instance, the newspaper that people buy everyday is a non-verbal form of communication. Through the text written in it, the news is brought to the people. Another example is the street signs and the signal lights that we see.

Through them, we are able to know the right thing to do, such as when we can cross the street, or where is the place that we are looking for. Another non-verbal form of communication, which may be an old way of communication, is through written letters. People still use writing letters to convey information. However, with the emergence of new technologies, especially the computer and the Internet, people these days started to communicate in an "electronic" way.

That is, via the different capabilities of the computer and the Internet to provide means of communication to people. Some examples of which are emails, online chats, and voice chats. Communication between persons located in distant places can also happen like a normal "face-to-face" conversation via video cameras that can send live video feed of people online. Aside from the material things that provide means of non-verbal form of communication, we ourselves can communicate non-verbally even without the computer or anything.

Perhaps the most common form of non-verbal communication in our selves is our facial expressions, body language and gestures, and emotion. An online source indicates that 55% of communication is done through facial expressions. Everything2 online further indicates that The face can be used very successfully to display six basic emotions: anger, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise, and disgust. When photographs are taken of people showing these expressions in their faces, experiments have shown that the emotions represented by those expressions can be easily identified by Westerners.

Further research has shown that these expressions appear to apply similarly to many different culture around the world, and the emotions can be as.