Indirect communication method such as telephone and e-mail make our communication method more rapid and easy one.   As you know telephone is so essential for our life we cannot imagine life without telephone.  Especially in the developed countries like Japan, widespread portable handy phone or cell phone accelerates this tendency.   Gradually, e-mail has also been prevalent and become one of the essential communication method.  

 

  As for the answer of this question, I cannot judge whether or not such indirect communication methods make our communication less personal.  It is because these convenient machines has both good and bad effect on our making intimate relationship with one another. 

 

 Telephone and e-mail enables us to communicate with others more handy.  We do not need to meet the person whom we want to talk to.  Therefore, we can keep frequency of keeping in touch with others and prevent ourselves from making relationship with others thinner by physically far distance between we and the guy.   For instance, e-mail is very suitable for those who feel troublesome about writing letter and sealing stamp on the envelop and putting it on a post like me, because we can send e-mail with only clicking battens on line.  In this point, I am sure that such communication method plays an important part in our keeping personal communication with others.

 

  However sometimes such convenient communication method make us too lazy and coward to meet someone whom we need to say our opinion.  Sending our message to others with indirect communication is so easy for us that we tend to rely on them.   When we have to say someone what we do not want to say, we tend to depend on these methods to avoid looking he/she getting angry or crying to hear our words.   However without direct meeting, the person that we have to persuade cannot understand our real thought, or our relationship between the people might become worse.  Without direct watching our visual reaction like face expression or attitude, the people will overlook clue of understanding our real thought.   Or the person might regard us as impolite or insincere people.  Therefore, I think the more we depend on such methods when telling others our important message, the less we can make intimate relationship with them.   

 

In this way, indirect communication method like telephone or e-mail has contradicting effect on our human relationship.  Thus, we need to consider whether or not the information is suitable for sending with telephone or e-mail.  If we have to say important things to others, I recommend you to meet the person and tell it directly.