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I fully agree with what Sherry Turkle said. I feel it is true that technology is taking over our
lives, it is already evident in the workforce or even when you see youths together. They do not talk,
they are together but constantly busy on their electronic devices. She also mentioned that you
cannot convey true emotions through technology or messaging online from personal experience, the
message you are trying to tell people can often be misinterpreted when it is not said in person. I also
feel that having robots replace humans and try to act human like so that people have companions is
wrong. The robots are not real and have no emotions, it is kind of insulting the human race I think. It
shows that humans are so selfish and busy that they have no time for their loved ones. They should
stop humanizing technology so people of the future will still understand how to communicate face to
face and have an emotional relationship with a person.

I fully agree with what Sherry Turkle said. As technology advances these days, we have become so
over-reliant on it. It has taken over our lives and has resulted in us being a slave to our devices. It
has become such a routine to constantly check your phone the first thing we wake up. It is almost
inevitable to live a day without touching our electronic devices. We constantly find comfort in
showing our true selfs on the virtual world because real life expression becomes such a difficult task.
It is hard to hold face to face conversation, despite the person being right next to you. Personally,
real life conversation with my friends usually die down after an awkward moment. What we do
virtually, we are unable to apply it on face to face meetings. It is hard to find filers to fit in during
physical meetings, just like how we are able to do it via communicating online. Thus, I feel that we
should not the the dependence on technology hinder real life communication. It is essential to put a
stop to it, before technology engulfs physical meetings completely.
I think this is an over-analysis of behaviors that have existed for a long time. Most people use their
phones/social media as tool to facilitate conversation, just because someone doesn't want to have
an in depth conversation in person with every one they meet doesn't mean they are "retreating" into
their phones or preventing vulnerability. People have in depth conversation both in text and in
person, it depends on the individual. Just because kids are sitting in a room on their phones doesn't
mean they aren't enjoying each others company....you don't have to be constantly engaged in some
all encompassing activity to hang out. For all we know the kids had done whatever activity they had
planned or were just killing time before actually getting to that activity. Being on your phone does not
mean you don't still talk to the people around you. I find it pretty annoying that so many people try to
romanticize the pre-social media age of communication as if people didn't sit in rooms together and
not speak, as if people didn't "retreat" into the newspaper or into a book. As for her point about the
robot, I think it's silly she feels the way she does...how often do people nod shake their heads and
say re-assuring cliche crap without actually listening to a word being said? How many people
ignore/dismiss other's feelings because they don't care or can't relate? Maybe the reasons so many
individuals are drawn in to the connectivity of social media is because they are tried of others looking
past them. People are doing the same thing they always have all that's changed is the form of
technology they use.
Without a doubt, I strongly agree with everything that Sherry Turkle has stated in the video. When
we use social media platforms, we feel like we are connected with everybody else when in reality,
we are subconsciously drifting ourselves away from everybody else that we are physically with. For
instance, when I am out with my friends, we tend to be on our phones uploading pictures with each
other and updating our social media platforms about the fact that we have met up instead of having
proper conversations with one another. It is as if we feel the need to tell the whole world what we are
up to or else we will somehow feel incomplete or not like ourselves, as what Sherry Turkle has
mentioned in the video as well. "I would've listened to this argument and taken it to heart, but 19
minutes is a long time, and I kept getting distracted by text messages and the urge to check
Facebook." This is so true. It was hard for me to focus throughout the video as well and I was so
tempted to get my hands on my phone. This shows how dependent we are now on technology.