Human dignity and communication

When a phone rings, you don't know who is calling. You pick the phone and say "Hello". Perhaps, your hello may mean far from greeting the caller, but a mere word to let the caller knows you are ready to receive his/her message. Hmmmm. There should be phone ethics anyway.

But when the caller is asking for a longer talk, maybe, you will simply say sorry that you are about to go or you are a bit busy to entertain it. If the caller is asking for someone else and not around or doesn't like to receive the call, you may just say, pls. try to call after the day. That makes you save your time with dignity.

In today's IT age, the chat or messenger technology is a cheap and a good medium of communication too. You can tele-communicate easily without any additional charge in your Internet except when you are in a cafe.

But when you send a message to an online buddy, and you don't get an answer, you may speculate of something. He may be far from his desk, busy, or has stepped out. Moreover, if the online buddy will suddenly log-off after you have sent you message, what else can you speculate? Is it the same when you make a phone call but the receiver just bang the phone down as he hear your voice speaking on the phone?

Let us know more what is dignity in communication arts.