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EN 112
Dr Clark
19th September 2015
Summary and Response to No need to call by Sherry Turkle In the article, No need to call, the author talks about how text messaging and social media media is playing a huge role in the improvement of self esteem and self confidence among some shy teens. She uses Elaine, a teen who texts each of her 6 friends about 20 times every day, as a huge part in her. Turkle claims that social media is positive for the most part because people are able to express themselves more openly and don't have to worry about the pressure that comes with talking in person. She brings up a point about how when talking to people in person, people to pause to think about what message they want to get across and …show more content…
Tara says that when receives a call from someone, the person expects your full attention and there are more communication skills that you have to put in compared to sending an email/text message. She likes to meet her friends in person, but it's very hard because friends have unexpected things happening in their lives so texting is very convenient in that case. When it comes to the Business side of things , texting and emails are good because meeting are planned in them and have an agenda to them making it convenient to get things done even when you don't have to meet in person. Then Tuckle uses one of Elaine’s shy friends as another example of how social media is more favourable that calling today. Although in her case, the situation is a little bit different from most. in her case, her parents are divorced and she has an older brother in medical and a younger brother who is only 2 years making her feel lonely. Because her parent are divorced, she spends her half of her time at each place and has to drive 45 minutes between each home adding more to boredom. Her parents also use her as a form of communication between the two making her phone, her best friend like. That is also the case with Aubreys Mom, she seems to be obsessed with her cell phone and her mother is usually on the phone through the 40 minute drive. Still Aubrey admits that she is …show more content…
I feel like the role of technology in our society can be interpreted in many different ways including the way it's described by the author, which is “positively” affecting people with low esteem. I disagree with Tuckle on that claim because I feel like social media might also have a bigger role in the damaging of self esteem. It's true that when certain people are behind screen, they are free to share almost anything and say pretty much whatever they want. That opening up online, tends to let people open up more than they need to leading other people to judge them and cause life to be even more difficult. For example, we
EN 112
Dr Clark
19th September 2015
Summary and Response to No need to call by Sherry Turkle In the article, No need to call, the author talks about how text messaging and social media media is playing a huge role in the improvement of self esteem and self confidence among some shy teens. She uses Elaine, a teen who texts each of her 6 friends about 20 times every day, as a huge part in her. Turkle claims that social media is positive for the most part because people are able to express themselves more openly and don't have to worry about the pressure that comes with talking in person. She brings up a point about how when talking to people in person, people to pause to think about what message they want to get across and …show more content…
Tara says that when receives a call from someone, the person expects your full attention and there are more communication skills that you have to put in compared to sending an email/text message. She likes to meet her friends in person, but it's very hard because friends have unexpected things happening in their lives so texting is very convenient in that case. When it comes to the Business side of things , texting and emails are good because meeting are planned in them and have an agenda to them making it convenient to get things done even when you don't have to meet in person. Then Tuckle uses one of Elaine’s shy friends as another example of how social media is more favourable that calling today. Although in her case, the situation is a little bit different from most. in her case, her parents are divorced and she has an older brother in medical and a younger brother who is only 2 years making her feel lonely. Because her parent are divorced, she spends her half of her time at each place and has to drive 45 minutes between each home adding more to boredom. Her parents also use her as a form of communication between the two making her phone, her best friend like. That is also the case with Aubreys Mom, she seems to be obsessed with her cell phone and her mother is usually on the phone through the 40 minute drive. Still Aubrey admits that she is …show more content…
I feel like the role of technology in our society can be interpreted in many different ways including the way it's described by the author, which is “positively” affecting people with low esteem. I disagree with Tuckle on that claim because I feel like social media might also have a bigger role in the damaging of self esteem. It's true that when certain people are behind screen, they are free to share almost anything and say pretty much whatever they want. That opening up online, tends to let people open up more than they need to leading other people to judge them and cause life to be even more difficult. For example, we