Analysis Of Growing Up Tethered By Sherry Turkle

Many times I have been driving down the interstate, and I find myself checking messages on my phone, and playing around with the music. Meaning every time I pick up my phone to engage in these activities, I am risking my life. After reading “Growing up tethered” written by Sherry Turkle, it really opened my eyes to just put the phone down, and go experience what life has to offer. Sherry Turkle, explains how technology is making us become more sheltered, and not being able to experience the factor of being alone in life. When you become dependent on just yourself and not someone else; that is when you will get to experience what life has to offer. Agreeing with Turkle’s explanation of how Cellphones are sheltering us. Turkle gives us an example of how parents give their children cellphones; so the children can go and do activities with their friends. Cell Phones give people knowledge or experience with a subject that they might not be familiar with. With a cellphone people miss out on an experience of trial and error, or actually feeling alone for once. If somebody has a cellphone, they are connected with people, and they never get to experience the loneliness. Adults that have children going to college or moving out of the house. Feel the need to call their children to make sure they are doing good, and what they have been doing. So cellphones really do not let us become more independent on ourselves, in other words we are becoming more dependent on them. When you are talking face to face with someone you are able to express motion, but when you message someone you can not really express the motion you want to express. …show more content…
When you are messaging someone through text message it is very hard to express emotion you are feeling in the text. People sometimes might take a text message a wrong way even though it was not meant to be said in the way the reader speaks. Turkle mentions that people are losing the ability to have a conservation face to face, and we ourselves are not able to keep eye contact as much as we once did, for the reason being texting over the phone where you yourself can correct your sentences and errors. Turkle talked to students about having conservations. Some of the students said they were even scared to talk face to face, because they might say the wrong thing, and not being able to take back what they said. Cell Phones have changed the world in many ways, and completely changed the world we live in today. When I sit down and listen to my parents talk about how life was before cellphones; I completely lose my mind, because I could not …show more content…
People on social media are able to put off a person that may be very likable, and a very outgoing person, but in reality they could be very shy or not a very likable person. Turkle tells us that some people that engage a lot in social media have problems in their lives. They post something on social media to try and get a way to deal with their stress or the problem they are dealing with. “Sometimes the ability to compose your thoughts online can be reassuring,” he says, “because there is a chance to think through, calculate, edit, and make sure you’re as clear and concise as possible.” (Written from Turkle’s “Growing Up