Lets Pop Our Technological Bubbles
Now a days we all prefer to communicate through any form of technology whether it is texting or any form of social media. In “Rule of Thumb: Love in the Age of Texting” an article by Natalie Y. Moore, Moore give us examples on how texting has come between face to face conversation and how you need actual communication in a relationship. In “The Flight from Conversation” by Sherry Turkle, Turkle says that “all forms of technology interfere with face to face communication”. Although great technological advances have been made, it is impeding us from having face to face communication since it now allows people to be in their own technological bubble.
. In “Rule of Thumb: Love in the Age of Texting” by Natalie …show more content…
She says that we have gotten used to being “alone yet together”. This is very true and we see it all the time. Just think about it when you go out with your friends have you noticed you’re all together but everyone is on their phone whether it be texting, checking Instagram, Snapchat, or even Facebook. One example that Turkle gives us is that some families sit at the dinner table but they’re all in their own technological bubble, some maybe on their cellphones, tablets, or computers, and that’s no way of communicating especially not at the dinner table. Another example Turkle gives us is of a business man that says how in his office he feels that he doesn’t have colleagues anymore because everyone is so caught up in their phones that no one wants to talk, but then he realizes that he’s the one caught up in his cellphone never wanting to be disturbed. She also shares another example where a 16 year old boy says to her that “someday but certainly not now, I would like to learn how to have a conversation” (Qtd in Turkle). I myself didn’t know that there was a way to learn how to have a conversation I thought it just came
Now a days we all prefer to communicate through any form of technology whether it is texting or any form of social media. In “Rule of Thumb: Love in the Age of Texting” an article by Natalie Y. Moore, Moore give us examples on how texting has come between face to face conversation and how you need actual communication in a relationship. In “The Flight from Conversation” by Sherry Turkle, Turkle says that “all forms of technology interfere with face to face communication”. Although great technological advances have been made, it is impeding us from having face to face communication since it now allows people to be in their own technological bubble.
. In “Rule of Thumb: Love in the Age of Texting” by Natalie …show more content…
She says that we have gotten used to being “alone yet together”. This is very true and we see it all the time. Just think about it when you go out with your friends have you noticed you’re all together but everyone is on their phone whether it be texting, checking Instagram, Snapchat, or even Facebook. One example that Turkle gives us is that some families sit at the dinner table but they’re all in their own technological bubble, some maybe on their cellphones, tablets, or computers, and that’s no way of communicating especially not at the dinner table. Another example Turkle gives us is of a business man that says how in his office he feels that he doesn’t have colleagues anymore because everyone is so caught up in their phones that no one wants to talk, but then he realizes that he’s the one caught up in his cellphone never wanting to be disturbed. She also shares another example where a 16 year old boy says to her that “someday but certainly not now, I would like to learn how to have a conversation” (Qtd in Turkle). I myself didn’t know that there was a way to learn how to have a conversation I thought it just came