Technology Use
During Sherry Turkle's TED talk she explained the impacts of technology and our lives that so much revolve around them. She went into detail about how technology today is a way for people in our society to stay connected, yet alone at the same time. Society, in essence, allows us to never leave our homes but yet still gives us the opportunity to talk to all of our friends and family. We even see at times we are "alone together", sitting in a room full of friends or family but are completely drawn into our social media world and even connecting through it while in the exact same location. Sherry also speaks about how society has now altered how we communicate with each other. It's so much easier to just text what we want and have more control over what we do say and how we say it.
With many pros of how technology has impacted the human relationships there are also the same amount of cons. First, technology affects are learning tremendously. As Sherry mentioned we often multitask while at school or meetings and we will be on our phones during a lecture but tune out the boring stuff and only give some what of our attention to the things that we find important. This is changing the way we understand things and sometimes can even alter our interpretations of what we think we hear. Second, phones and social media change what we do and who we are. On social media we share "important" things or things that make us seem interesting. Sherry mentions that this can sometimes create an entire new persona for our online life in real world life. Lastly, the ability to hide behind a cell phone so easily it is affecting our ability to have a real conversation with people. Sherri also mentions that while using our smart phones we are capable or copying, pasting, editing and deleting what we want to say before we press send. This is effecting society as a whole to where we see it as so much easier to just text to have a conversation than it is to have a real one face to face, so why do it. The younger generation doesn't see the problem of how texting does not help us learn and understand each other and it is affecting us more and more everyday.
Sherry mentioned that a lot of people multi-task during class or in meetings, which are important things that definitely require all your attention, so do you give these things all your attention or are you distracted by technology? How often do you use your phone and do you see it as a positive or negative thing? I really like your post it made me think and evaluate my life.
ReplyDeleteI feel that I am most defiantly distracted by technology with almost everything that I ever do. I use my phone all day everyday but I do find that I do a lot better in classes when I'm not able to be use my phone. I think that the use of technology and the ability to access it now so quickly and easily is why it is also a negative thing in todays society. Technology has its pros and cons but I think when it comes to our lives as teenagers it tends to affect us way more negatively.
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