How Does Personalty Affect Your Communication Style

We talked about how self-concept and self-esteem affect how you communicate. Understanding our personality type, in other words, specific characteristics, traits and attributes of our personality can also teach us in several ways, such as, how we how we perceive the world and make decisions.

Here's you assignment, if you so choose to take it:

Take the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and discuss how your personality affects the way you communicate, then discuss how knowing the attributes of your personality can help you more effectively communicate with others.

These are link to help you research your personality:

• High-Level Description of the Sixteen Personality Types 
• Type Logic   
• Similar Minds
  

How Do We Communicate in Chat Rooms

Interpersonal communication is governed by rules, and these rules can be extended to social media as well. I'd like to collect your thoughts and observations of a particular chat room. Here's what you need to do:

• Find an appropriate chat room you feel comfortable entering.
• Log into the chat room.
• Observe the chat room activity and look for the evidence of social rules governing the environment and take note of the.
• Enter the conversation once you feel comfortable that you're aware of the social rules.
• After some time of interaction with those in the chat room, create an opportunity to break the rules you observed.  What happened? 
• Write about your experience in the comment section.