How is interpersonal communication changing due to a pandemic?

In today's article, I would like to talk about interpersonal communication during the coronavirus pandemic. Writing this article I will share here my own thoughts on this topic, but like everything I try to do in my life - based on knowledge and not "seen" and using critical thinking. So, let me start with the fact that I approach the issue not only from the obvious side - providing information.

What does communication give us? It serves and in my opinion is its lion's share of the task, to discharge the so-called "Voltage threshold" (we remove it mainly during sleep in the REM phase). This is a natural adaptation to the "handling" of this process. It is worth paying attention to the naturalness of our behavior, because - at least in my opinion, we are obligatorily subordinated to them. We are animals. We are primates in the animal kingdom and are subject to the same processes as other animals - we eat, sleep, expel, breathe, etc.

Communication

Thinking about communication, I separate it into verbal and non-verbal communication. Their ratio is respectively (according to various sources a little different) about 30% -70%. The huge advantage of nonverbal communication comes to mind itself? This shows how important it is. In a nutshell, this kind of communication is about the "conversation" of our bodies. We are talking about all stimuli sent by our organisms and received by the interlocutor with all senses. Smell, hearing, facial expressions or gestures - all this is collective and at the same time "speaks" with us. It is easy to see on the example what information we get when the interlocutor "marks" laughter. And when we see a person who laughs all over the face, the eyes laugh and the ears make micro vibrations. A colossal difference in information right?

Communication vs virus

Each of us felt to a greater or lesser extent the effects of social isolation during this period. You can see with the naked eye how our lives have moved to the network to a much greater extent. What's interesting, despite this, people naturally post videos of being together in a smaller group limited by sanitary requirements. This clearly shows how we are eager to contact within our own genre - controlled just by the needs I wrote about above.

Not - natural behaviors

What can lead to such a change of natural accents for us in the field of communication, communing with other people? "Naturally", you are saying that for nothing good? You think well. Lack of production and response to stimuli, as well as e.g. lack of vitamins causes specific effects - negative effects. Lack of vitamin C? Our immunity decreases. Long-term lack of it? Let's say goodbye to our teeth - scurvy. It is the same with communication and a whole range of stimuli of its non-verbal side. Among the various types of depression, so-called Environment. It is a response to the occasional depravation of our environment - this place is (although fortunately less and less) now. It develops in the absence of meeting our needs of this type and runs as dangerously as its "older" varieties.

We have moved to the network to a greater extent. More out of compulsion, and when the situation has cleared up so much that we can communicate with each other in a natural way for our species - we do it. I personally see a healthy desire to contact people. So I can probably conclude that, fortunately, everything is slowly coming back to normal.