The Importance of Communication in the Covid 19 Pandemic Era

The Importance of Communication in the Covid 19 Pandemic Era Humans are social creatures whose lives are dynamic, continuing over time. Every human being must experience changes during their life. These changes can take the form of something striking or inconspicuous, limited or extensive changes, and there are also changes that occur slowly or quickly. These changes are related to social values, organizations, social environment, social institutions, power and authority, and so on. Society is divided into 2 types, namely static and dynamic society. In general, a static society is a society that experiences little change, and these changes occur slowly. Meanwhile, a dynamic society is a society that experiences rapid change. This change is not only carried out to produce progress, but this change can also mean a setback in certain fields. These changes occur because modern communication is increasingly developing, especially in the field of technology. In the current era of the Covid 19 pandemic, there have been many changes around us. The existence of the Covid 19 pandemic has directly changed the order of social life in society. This is proven by the implementation of a communication method using digital communication media due to social distancing. Who is still unfamiliar with the term social distancing? Of course, almost everyone knows what social distancing is because currently the term social distancing has become very popular among almost all Indonesian people. Social distancing is one of the policies implemented as a solution to reduce the wider development of Covid 19. It is known that in social distancing distance is the most important component. Judee K. Burgoon states that unexpected changes that occur in the distance of conversation between communicators can give rise to uncomfortable feelings, even anger and are often ambiguous. This causes a violation of expectations, the meaning of which is more towards a guess or prediction. Burgoon stated that humans have a need for affiliation and personal space. In the sense that humans always want to be physically close to other humans, especially people who have personal closeness to us. However, at the same time, we as individuals still have to keep our distance from other people we consider foreigners, as a form of self-protection from possible threats from people we consider foreigners. Humans are social creatures whose lives are dynamic, continuing over time. Every human being must experience changes during their life. These changes can take the form of something striking or inconspicuous, limited or extensive changes, and there are also changes that occur slowly or quickly. These changes are related to social values, organizations, social environment, social institutions, power and authority, and so on. Society is divided into 2 types, namely static and dynamic society. In general, a static society is a society that experiences little change, and these changes occur slowly. Meanwhile, a dynamic society is a society that experiences rapid change. This change is not only carried out to produce progress, but this change can also mean a setback in certain fields. These changes occur because modern communication is increasingly developing, especially in the field of technology. In the current era of the Covid 19 pandemic, there have been many changes around us. The existence of the Covid 19 pandemic has directly changed the order of social life in society. This is proven by the implementation of a communication method using digital communication media due to social distancing. Who is still unfamiliar with the term social distancing? Of course, almost everyone knows what social distancing is because currently the term social distancing has become very popular among almost all Indonesian people. Social distancing is one of the policies implemented as a solution to reduce the wider development of Covid 19. It is known that in social distancing distance is the most important component. Judee K. Burgoon states that unexpected changes that occur in the distance of conversation between communicators can give rise to uncomfortable feelings, even anger and are often ambiguous. This causes a violation of expectations, the meaning of which is more towards a guess or prediction. Burgoon stated that humans have a need for affiliation and personal space. In the sense that humans always want to be physically close to other humans, especially people who have personal closeness to us. However, at the same time, we as individuals also have Covid-19 causing us to be prevented from communicating directly with other people because we have to keep our distance, even though in communicating we need a close distance to feel comfortable communicating. Many people cannot meet their relatives, friends or business partners in person. This makes people feel very bored because they cannot communicate directly as they usually do. However, we must continue to maintain communication with other people, because this can be done using digital media. Therefore, we must be grateful to live in the current digital era and be very grateful to the developers of digital communication networks. The existence of digital communication makes our social distancing less boring and we don't really lose communication because as we know, communication is very important for maintaining relationships and strengthening friendships. Just not yet fully accustomed in daily life to the transfer of physical space to virtual space. Some people may feel bored with this virtual communication and maybe not everyone can use it, for example people who live in villages may be prevented from using this virtual communication because there may be no signal in the village, lack of knowledge in using virtual communication, and other reasons. . The existence of this pandemic shows us that not all technological developments are negative, so many people are reluctant to learn about them because they think that keeping up with the times is something that is destructive, even though as we can see currently, technological developments with virtual communication are helping many people to To still be able to communicate, we still have to keep our distance from other people we consider foreigners, as a form of self-protection from possible threats from people we consider foreigners.