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Mass Communication

        The word 'mass' means a large quantity. Communication transmission or exchange of ideas and information. Every day we come across newspapers' magazines and books. We read them to get new information and ideas. These things enable us to think, plan and make improvements in our lives. They provide all sorts of information relating to social, cultural and political aspects. Since ancient times written words have been the best source of exchanging ideas and information. We used to write letters in past and we do so even today.
       The newspapers and magazines be read by literate people. The other means of communication are radio and television. People are given all sorts of information, news and even entertainment.
       The other means of communication had been the telegram. It had continued for a long time until wireless or cable took its place. Then came the teleprinter and the telex. After this, came the revolution of fax (short for facsimilie from Latin, facsimile, to make a similar copy) over the telephone network by which copies of documents are sent at any distance instantly. For some time it was considered to be the fastest way of documental communication until E-mail, electronic document transfer, was introduced. It is virtually pager free, instant and almost free. The only cost is the cost of getting connected with the Internet. Yet the fastest ans informal way of communication is chat online. Chat on telephone has become quite less expensive and easier, but chat online through internet is becoming more popular. With this you can talk to someone sitting thousands of miles away through typing on your computer and transferring it at the same time to the other person's computer screen. A few common applications for this method of communication are MSN Messenger, Google Talk and Yahoo Messenger. With this, after a bit of change, you can even transfer still pictures as well as live happenings to any place in this global village - the world. This method is being used the T.V. channels these days.
      Newer still is the mobile phone technology. You can talk to anyone anywhere in the world on a tiny, little and handy instrument. You not only can talk but also see the picture of the person you are talking to on the screen. The other person can see your picture. Isn't it wonderful?

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