RE: COMMUNICATION BEFORE SOCIAL MEDIA
This in it's broader sense addresses the whole world, as all the methods of communication listed are not exclusive to the African community alone, they were also practice by those in the West and those in the far East.
The movie series of Merlin and Legend of the Seeker gives a broader light to the communicative skills of the West, before the Modern era. And the history of the Silk Road tells you much about the Eastern communication ways.
In all, all the new and instantaneous ways of communication are all advancements of the old ways of communication.
Thanks for giving us a reminder of where we are coming from. For I feel these new methods of communication makes us retards, as it is quite common to see someone who is very vibrant and seemingly outspoken on social media turn into a very shy and reserve person in reality. But a reminder like this, will help us get better into communicating more in reality than on social media.
This is true indeed. I picked the African continent because I am familiar with its history and culture.
The social media is a strange drug and it's addicts refuse to accept that they are addicted. Today I read that a woman videoed her boyfriend who was dying from stab wounds on posted it on snapchat without bothering to call the police or an ambulance to the dude's rescue. It just sucks.
Communication back then had a function and it's function was never abused.
This explains the dysfunctionality in the modern communication methods. Social media as it is today as a means of communication has not done justice to the main reason for communication.