In Peggy Orbeck's Essay 'I Tweet, Therefore I Am'

Being able to text, email, Twitter, Facebook, SnapChat and do the things we would normally do in person has created another sense of environment.. The high advanced technology that we have access to, we can communicate with our loved ones living across the world and closest to us. Yet, technology seems to be becoming part of people’s everyday life that when we share a moment or thought, through a device everything else around us seems to minimize. As technology continues to be part of one’s everyday life certain moments can be missed, when technology is in use such as, work related, and family moments. Even writing a message online or text can be affected when a device is used. Today’s youth has become attached to a screen rather than paying attention to what really matters. Relationships are being in a way tested, but also we lose connection with reality. Therefore, technology can affect what you do, write, and its youth that use devices in order to keep preoccupied. In Peggy Orenstein essay, “I Tweet, Therefore I Am” she talks about her experience of using Twitter. At first she was not into tweeting until she was able to get the hang of it. Whenever she had a chance she would take that opportunity to send out a message. According to Orenstein, “But instead, a part of my consciousness had split off and was observing the scene from the outside: this was, …show more content…
In a way, I feel that not only adults live a double life, but also youth itself is living a double life through technology in order to forget what is actually happening in the real world. Rather than going out and exploring new adventures, one decides to dedicate their time into a device, in which they are able to hide certain facts of their lives by replacing them with fictional or most interesting