The transmission, (equally essential) happens when it is shared. The replication of a meme occurs when someone copies cultural information in a meme and uses it in a newer context. Memes are often replicated and transmitted. Memes can take a variety of forms ranging from ideas, a skill, a behaviour, or a fashion. Staying relevant is all that matters," says Pranami Bordoloi, Clinical Psychologist, Apollo Spectra Nehru Enclave. Trending topics keep changing at the drop of a hat. While handwritten letters took days to reach, now we have everything at the tip of our fingers in the form of telephones, cell phones, computers, and email and now social media as well. The way we communicate has changed over the years. On social media, things trend like wildfire, strengthening this new form of communication. "Communication and social media have become the best of friends. It is also considered to be controversial to some extent, "given the notion of selfishness and the application of the concept to the evolution of cultures, which formed the basis for the field of memetics," source Britannica. However, the concept remains largely theoretical. "Understood in those terms, memes carry information, are replicated, and are transmitted from one person to another, and they have the ability to evolve, mutating at random and undergoing natural selection, with or without impacts on human fitness (reproduction and survival)." - excerpt from Britannica. Meaning they are in control of their own reproduction and serving their own ends. The biologist considered Dawkins drew parallels between genes and memes. Rather than spend time talking on the phone.
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Even if we do, we surely prefer using our free time for ourselves. (at least what looked important through social media) And also knew what long-term or short-term plans they were heading to.Īdditionally, we are all so caught up in our daily lives, that we barely find time to have a lengthy conversation with everyone we know. We were up to date with what was happening in someone life. With the world coming increasing closer and social media becoming a mirror to our world there was not much left to talk about. It solved a lot of problems such as having to fix time to be online or managing with the limited internet connection options. Though quite short-lived, these were the precursors to the giants that came later on as digital communication facilitators. Yahoo messenger enjoyed the limelight for a few years as people would decide a time to meet online and take to each other. While we talk about the mainstream players, it is important to not forget the inbetweeners such as Yahoo messenger, Google hangout and even Facebook and Orkut. Yet somehow we do not always have much to say to a person. So, communication has come a long way from being short messages sent via birds to detailed long messages and today, when we have almost 360° means of communicating with someone. There was no need to actually saying much, just a snap or a double tap was enough to show our friends that we are there for them. Then came Snapchat and Instagram which made communicating with our close ones easier. In that process, we also learned a new language called emojis. And most chats and groups became a hub for forwards - and soon to the advent of fake news. However, soon, people did not have much to say to each other. No matter how far the people, everyone seemed to come closer.
More and more people came together and the world felt like a close-knit circle. With no cap on the number of messages, the world of digital communication had changed for good. WhatsApp completely changed the texting scenario. Back then, communication was also more focused and dedicated to one person. There no doubt that the thrill of a specific permitted number of text messages was fun. Your messages had to be concise and to the point, and so much so that if the number of messages was exhausted, then there was no other way but to wait to either wait till midnight or meet the person. I clearly remember being able to send only 100 text messages per day and communication was not easy. If you used a phone in the early 2000s' you would know the problem of only being permitted to use a particular number of texts per day. And now, as we continue to further digitise our world, we have evolved from text messages to WhatsApp and Instagram and Snapchat. With the process of evolution, various new systems set in and people soon started using emails for communication.