Neldeliz S.

Junsay P11 CRIMINOLOGY

“Connected, but Alone” from TED Talks by Ms. Sherry Turkle

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The way we talk to each other is important and conveying our

messages matters not just by making sentences and choice of words, it is
because of approaching and understanding. Today, we can send messages
on different types of social media platforms that help us to connect with one
another at different places and time zone. In all the applications that make our
life easier to online socializing, we met a lot of people not just in texting but
also in playing multiplayer games like mobile legends, valorant, and call of
duty. Technology is part of our everyday life that we can't get rid of because it
brings our interest and many of us feel happiness by using technology as a
texting tool. The impact of globalization affects in many ways that can be good
and bad, for example in today's situation we are in a pandemic and
connecting online is a really big help so that we can follow to the works,
studies, and businesses that every one of us is doing. If there's a good then
there's a bad, the bad thing is we are away from the people around us like our
family... Our body is near but our minds are far away from our physical body.
We forgot that we have someone on our sides that we can bond like playing
games and talking, someone that we can see and touch.

I can relate to the conversation and connection, at home each of my

family members has a mobile phone and we have an internet connection. We
use our free time to spend it surfing and browsing on the social media
application, we have entertainment in social media that can make us laugh,
and watching videos that give information or movies. There's a time both of
my parents are in the living room and they are near to each other, at that
moment I just finished my assignment a while ago and decided to go out to
talk to my parents. Watching them touching their phones while my father is
watching videos on YouTube and my mother is scrolling on Facebook makes
me sad because they didn't notice I am standing beside them, I say
something to them like "okay cellphone" and they notice me and we had a
conversation. That night I began to think that technology can bring a huge
impact on individuals, just like my experience I am near to my parents and
they are sitting towards each other yet instead of making a conversation they
are connecting to technology. The communication between me and my
parents is affected by the technology, we forgot that we have each other that
is easy to talk to but we chose technology to help us entertain ourselves. I
realize that talking to our internet friends, playing games, browsing the
internet, and watching movies make us step away from outside because the
internet is just a little world and it is just existing on the technology compared
to that we have the real world which we can do anything we want and it
makes are bond closer to each other, I am not saying that it is bad to do those
I mentioned above yet we should know our limitations before using technology
because we didn't know we became the robot of our technologies.
 In conclusion, in my opinion, we have barriers to communicating
because we don't have the real conversation which we feel the sincerest and
understanding of a person we are having a conversation with, and we have an
online connection to the people we don't meet that we don't know the real
agenda on us. We shared our problems, make friends, and sharing our
information with them even we don't know each other and for me, it is
alarming because we shouldn't trust the people we don't know that we don't
meet personally. Texting and calling don't mean you know the person if it's
real or not towards you. Some are living to the idea of introverted because
they feel shy to meet new people and afraid to go to the box because they
think they will be judged but they are wrong, how come it's easy to text
strangers online and trust them to compare to the real ones we have. It is not
about we are introverted it is about we forgot to have a conversation because
we are afraid of the outcome and we can't control the way we deliver,
respond, and our gestures. Furthermore, we are alone because we choose to
be alone and we feel comfortable with the things that make us feel we are
safe yet we became blind to the reality that not everyone and everything is
real especially online. The conversation is best to know the truthfulness and to
comfort someone, by the globalization of technology instead of controlling it
we are the ones under control.