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Thursday, March 1, 2007

Negative Effects


As everyone probably knows, appearance is an important part of business. Presentation of your actions is a large aspect of how people will see you in your business world. A problem with Video Conferencing is you don’t get the real world value of how people really are. You lose eye contact and real encounters with other people through Video Conferencing.

Another huge conciseness problem with Video Conferencing is the cost and the non-guaranteed working ability. As everyone knows, computers and technology sometimes have minds of their own and don’t always work accordingly. Having to spend thousands of dollars on Video Conferencing audio-output & input technology, and televisions to transmit pictures from, becomes very costly, as well as paying for the air time, through a network. This would present a huge problem if at a time where you needed to make a call through Video Conferencing, it suddenly shutdown and you had no way to fix it in the time that you needed it fixed by.

The biggest personal issue with Video Conferencing is the ability it could possibly have on completely ruining face-to-face encounters, and making people more impersonal than ever before. This technology could in the future take out non-wireless telephones completely and now you could just have Video Conference technology in your homes. This would almost eliminate living at all, and just creating problems in the world of inverted people. It can become a way to have virtual meetings with other business people, but what if it was to be recorded? Although, recording without permission is illegal, it is still possible that people could use footage taken from a Video Conference to sabotage other people.

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