Sherry Turkle Alone Together Analysis

I chose to complete my essay on Sherry Turkle’s book Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other and how social media has an influence on society. People are not aware how much technology is making an impact on their lives. Cell phones, social networks, simulation games, and so on are all a problems that almost everyone has. As you read my essay please ask yourself, “Am I tethered.” Sherry Turkle makes a lot of good points throughout her passage that you will read throughout the essay. As I was reading “Growing Up Tethered” I realized that I can relate this to my life really well. I was thinking specifically about my phone. A lot of people in my generation are attached to their phones. Some people won’t even put it down in extreme situations like driving. What people don’t realize is that they are putting not only their own life in danger …show more content…
If you relate that to your everyday life I’m positive that there is always those people that run through your head while just thinking about it. If you feel at all guilty while reading this then it’s time for you to do something about it. Social media has made life a lot more difficult than it needs to be. Some of the cases that were given in the passage were really relatable. A quote from Turkle’s book reads, “To stay free from parents, I don’t take my cell. Then they can’t reach me. My mother tells me to take my cell, but I just don’t.” (Turkle 431) Most children don’t find that when they get a phone it’s a bad thing by getting it because you feel that you are obligated to answer your phone at any given point when your parents call you. A lot of kids are also oblivious to the fact that their parents chose to give the cell phone to them and they can choose to take it away just as