With the enormous amounts of technology released in the past decade, almost every human has access to some form of technology. Most people, especially adolescents, spend a good portion of their day checking their email, sending text messages, and replying to tweets. According to Sherry Turkle and William Deresiewicz, teenagers today are becoming too reliant on their devices, which causes a myriad of issues. Josh Keller comments on how students are writing more, and that their out of class writing may improve their academics. After reflecting on my own personal cell phone usage, I believe that technology is causing adolescents to write more outside of school, afraid to be by themselves, and place notifications above their own safety.
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I believe that this constant communication is causing adolescents to spend more time connected to others, and rarely leaving time for solitude. In William Deresiewicz’s essay titled “The End of Solitude”, he mentions how the contemporary self wants “to be recognized- it wants to be connected: it wants to be visible” (Deresiewicz 99). I am always browsing social media or answering text messages – something that is connecting me to others. I believe today’s generation, myself included, is afraid of solitude. Deresiewicz mentions how our use of technology “seems to involve a constant effort to stave off the possibility of solitude, a continuous attempt, as we sit alone at our computers, to maintain the imaginative presence of others” (Deresiewicz 105). If I am alone, I could miss out on something that is happening online. For example, if I receive a text, I will drop what I am doing to answer …show more content…
I have noticed that I am always waiting for a notification, a reply from someone. Sherry Turkle, who writes in her essay “Growing up Tethered”, refers to this as “waiting for interruption” (Turkle 430). One of the biggest problems I face with a cell phone addiction is the temptation to drop everything I am doing and answer a notification immediately. After discussing with a group of teenagers, Sherry Turkle notes that teens are “willing to take risks, to put themselves on the line. Several admit that they are tethered to their phones, they get into accidents when walking” (Turkle 430). As a society, we have put the desire to be connected to others (answering a text) above the aspect of
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I believe that this constant communication is causing adolescents to spend more time connected to others, and rarely leaving time for solitude. In William Deresiewicz’s essay titled “The End of Solitude”, he mentions how the contemporary self wants “to be recognized- it wants to be connected: it wants to be visible” (Deresiewicz 99). I am always browsing social media or answering text messages – something that is connecting me to others. I believe today’s generation, myself included, is afraid of solitude. Deresiewicz mentions how our use of technology “seems to involve a constant effort to stave off the possibility of solitude, a continuous attempt, as we sit alone at our computers, to maintain the imaginative presence of others” (Deresiewicz 105). If I am alone, I could miss out on something that is happening online. For example, if I receive a text, I will drop what I am doing to answer …show more content…
I have noticed that I am always waiting for a notification, a reply from someone. Sherry Turkle, who writes in her essay “Growing up Tethered”, refers to this as “waiting for interruption” (Turkle 430). One of the biggest problems I face with a cell phone addiction is the temptation to drop everything I am doing and answer a notification immediately. After discussing with a group of teenagers, Sherry Turkle notes that teens are “willing to take risks, to put themselves on the line. Several admit that they are tethered to their phones, they get into accidents when walking” (Turkle 430). As a society, we have put the desire to be connected to others (answering a text) above the aspect of