On the article of “The Flight From Conversation” written by Sherry Turkle, she focuses on how

communication/conversation is being sacrificed for technology. The types of technology she speaks of in
her article is social media, emails, text messages and artificial intelligence which are some of the things
replacing regular face to face conversation. The article “The Flight from Conversation” written by Sherry
Turkle is about how technology eliminate conversation for connection. People's lives are now “plugged-
in”. Conversations are gone as families sit together, texting and reading email. At work, people text
during meeting. Another thing mentioned in the article is that, the author reveals that she prefers face to
face conversation over technology because what it reduces is our interpersonal skills, patience and self-
reflective skills.Furthermore, the author states that living in these online worlds leads to delusional
relationships, loss of faith in others, weakened personalities, and greater loneliness.She expresses her
concerns that technologies bring about on everyone because it disables the society to have an actual
conversation and to have a connection with one another. According to Sherry Turkle technologies
decreases one’s ability to know how to have an appropriate conversation in person. Sherry Turkle’s main
message in her article is that everyone needs communicate and look out for one another rather than
with technologies

.Conversations that now happen through social media and have taken the place of traditional
interactions is causing people to leave their houses less and less since they do not need to leave to
communicate with others. This can lead to social isolation. Essentially, instead of spending time in person
with friends, we just call, text, instant message them or send a 10 second snapchat. In some extreme
cases, some people only lead lives in the virtual world in which they have even gotten married in online
video games such as Second Life. Second life is a virtual world where avatars do the kind of stuff that real
people do in life, however some players even choose to get married online via this game.

Moreover, using apps and social media allows one to portray an image that they want the world to see,
not being true to who they really are. Not many people will post about their bad days, however there
will be lots of posts online about travelling and how thankful they are and how great their life is.
Technology in this way can cause relationships not only to be strained with others, but can also cause
your relationship with your self to spiral downwards. Seeing what others are constantly achieving causes
you to examine your life and often leaves you feeling as if you are not good enough when you are not
posting on social media, or that other’s lives are better than your own. In this way technology affects
your relationship with yourself.

Misunderstandings, miscommunication and assumptions impact how we view others, and happen very
often when there is no face-to-face communication. While technology tries to account for this, for
instance, with the emoji’s, bitmoji’s and giff’s used in texting apps, they give the sender the ability to
communicate a facial expression virtually. Additionally, in 2012, Snapchat came out allowing us to take
pictures of ourselves, videos and type messages which allows the use of our own tone of voice and facial
expressions; making it the closest digital invention to human interactions that entertains one another
without physically being side by side. While this is great because technology allows people to connect
across the globe instantly, there is also a sense of disconnection that comes with this. Online contact still
falls short and fails to deliver personal touch despite all these advances. For example, once in a while I
get “stickers” and “emojis” on social media but it doesn’t make me feel a personal connection with that
person. It is not the same as getting a hug.