Why do we communicate?

We communicate for social interaction, for messages to be understood and for the sharing of experience, so statements 1, 3 and 4 hold.

Statement 1 is right because communication is the very means by which people connect and interact socially.

Statement 3 is right because the core aim of any message is to be received and understood by the other.

Statement 4 is right because communication lets us pool and pass on experience among individuals and generations.

For happiness's sake in statement 2 is a possible by product, not a defining purpose of why we communicate.

Protection of traditions in statement 5 is a narrow cultural function rather than a general reason for communicating.

These purposes map onto communication's basic functions of relating, informing and sharing meaning.