BARBAS, JASMINE ROSE D.

1ST YEAR (BA HISTORY-1A)

CAMUIN, JOHN STEVE SEPT. 26,2022

“REACTION PAPER”

CONNECTED, BUT NOT ALONE

There are many matters that make our Digital today make so appealing,
like having a complete world at our tips of our finger and having a consistent
outlet thru which we are “connected” to others in a subtle way. Don’t forget
about the reality that on our Digital today, we can edit, retouch and manage
any information we divulge about ourselves. In additional, She talks about how
she feels about our cutting-edge technology today what it is doing to us and
how we mingle and socialize with one another. She discussed about how
technology today permitting us to control us to the point that can exchange
who we are and how we act. Sherry emphasized that we rely on technology
more than our friends, family, relatives and humans round us. furthermore,
She included that individual are way too invested in their digital devices. The
issue is, real lifestyles is messy, sort of annoying and it is regularly times
uncomfortable as Sherry Turkle elaborates on in her popular Ted Talk,
“Connected, but Alone”. Do we turn to technology to for the most part break
out reality in a big way?. Maybe we kind of flip to technology as a particularly
safe space where we solely do what literally feels good, or so they kind of
thought?. Are we in reality “connected” when we literally are on our technology
like phone, which is quite significant?

People use technology to literally connect more often than the fairly face-
to-face connection, which essentially is fair significant. People specially are
lonely while they broadly speaking are afraid of intimacy in a huge way. They
basically spend sincerely corpulent time on the virtual and digital world to the
connection instead than of focusing on the certainly real world in a delicate
way. However, she culminates her conversation with a wish that
technology could lead humans returned to the for all intents, functions and
purposes marginally real lives, communities, and our planet in an absolutely
immense way.

Turkle fails to share the nice factors that conversation technology has
granted us. She is concerned that our society is prioritizing short term
conversation over long term relationships, and that we do now not see the
effect it will have to us in the long run. She holds human beings responsible for
generating a close-knit community, however, sees that human beings are
failing to accomplish this, as they are generating non-mutual relationships.
That communities guide people for the precise and the bad, however what we
have created are relationships without responsibility. Technology allows us the
feeling of community without the responsibility and benefit of a real
community. Therefore we are virtually alone, however alone together.

As human beings assume extra from this modern technology today and
much less from other individuals, we start to feel alone, thinking that there
exists no empathy in society, making them and us flip to technology even more,
on line connections let humans assume they are being heard. Thus, the
experience of connection through on-line solely in addition exacerbates the
feeling of isolation in people, due to the fact the potential for self reflection has
been lost, resulting in no grasp for the self and others.

This solitude is the gateway to proper communication and connection,

stresses us a couple of times. We find it in particular important for youthful
generations, who grew up with technology, and have lost the capacity to
establish face to face relations, to carry out uncooked dialog that hasn't been
edited and retouched. Turkle desires for children, and adults, to regain this
value, because, as she believes, interpersonal, live connections and
communications with others is the first-class potential to find out and increase
the self. And solely after the self is appreciated, can others be listened to and
understood. Turkle ends her speech optimistically, her belief in society to make
room for solitude, to think and speak about essential things and to pay
attention to others, as human beings have all the assets they need to start.

As I observe right now, We count so lots on technology and We fulfill all

of our verbal exchange wishes that we lose the thought of what it absolutely
potential to be related with people. It is so an awful lot less difficult for people
to textual content any person as an alternative than to go see them and have a
conversation. But human beings must stop and contemplate at what price does
this ease come with? Sure we are not sacrificing as much effort by means of
the usage of technology, however we are additionally depriving ourselves of an
true connection with people. It is a lot more significant when humans put in
the effort because it shows that they are clearly invested in their actions.

I agree with Turkle’s argument. People desire to increment greater self-

aware relationships internally and externally. given that we are face to face
with computers more than humans, we have developed an emotional
relationship with technology. She indicates how by conversing over the
Internet, we can obnubilate, embellish, and edit ourselves to show ourselves as
we would however be visually perceived. If we are now not linked to technology
we are disoriented, existence is unimaginable, and Turkle concur that this is
an unhealth direction for us to perpetuate down.

In conclusion, we fail to connect face-to-face because modern technology

wins. We also fail to realize how slowly it is devouring us. We often "connect"
with one another through our devices in an attempt to experience one other's
comfort, yet this only fills the gap. As a result, we live a lifestyle that lack
concentration. In essence, we are intentionally distracting others while we are
unaware of it. We frequently become involved in drama that we shouldn't be.
Disregarding carelessly and unconsciously that our family and friends are
more important. We should start communicating and connecting in physical.
Let's communicate since it's still not too late

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