Connected, but alone? by
Sherry Turkle
The speaker of the talk believes that
having a dependence on the Internet affects us negatively in some ways and I
totally agree with her. Firstly, I believe that from the moment technology got
in our pockets, people turned into introverted and antisocial individuals. I
see in my daily life that they don’t talk to their lovers, friends and even
their families. For instance, instead of seeing their loved ones and saying
they love them, they simply send voice messages. Sometimes the people they send
the voice message see it as a negligence and they have a quarrel about it. In
addition, I believe that technology makes us lose the track of time. We don’t
realize how much time we spend with devices. For instance, when their mother
asks teenagers to get up from the computer desk and study for their lessons,
they simply say they have just started, so they are not aware of how much time
they spend playing computer games. The last reason why I agree with the speaker
is that everything has become virtual. Literally everything is done on the
virtual world and people are very happy about it. To give an example, as a
trend which became popular recently, people buy fast food from an internet site
called ‘Yemek Sepeti’ in Turkey. You give the order, give details about your
order and choose the way of paying money and then your order comes to your
door, so you don’t make much effort and you lose the chance of choosing your
meal yourself -seeing and looking through- and having a chat with the seller.
All in all, in my opinion technology influences human beings adversely in some
ways; therefore, I totally agree with the speaker about the possible
unfavorable effects of using the technology.
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