21st CENTURY COMMUNICATION TRENDS

21^st century communication trends

Man has been communicating since thousands of years. But the 21^st century we have seen a sea change in the communications sector. Now the information is transmitted at a very fast pace rescinding all the geographical boundaries.

World is growing rapidly and people need to communicate faster. In today's organization employees are provided with numerous communication facilities to communicate faster with the organization's constituencies. Some of the recent trends in 21^st century communication are:

Virtual presenters: Virtual weather presenter.

Growth of VOIP: Internet phone calls on the rise

Relating items through tags

Blogs

Online bullying

P2P e-mail

New forms of collaboration: Networking

Physical and virtual social networks

Dual mode phones

Data and voice access

At an end user level I have experienced the rapid changes in the communication sector. A decade back people used conventional telephones for communicating. Pagers were used to send quick and short messages for a brief time. But there was a revolution when the mobiles entered the market. Today every one has a mobile phone irrespective of his financial status, and today's phones are far more than just phones.

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