Turkle concludes her novel with the topic of nostalgia and how despite technology’s penetration into our daily lives, people, teenagers included, still tend to think back wistfully to days prior to the Internet and Smartphones. For many teenagers, texting, IMing and Skyping bring about mixed emotions. Yes, these technologies make it easier to contact their friends; they are faster and more efficient, especially when trying to cross long distances. However, they also “talk wistfully about letters, face-to-face meetings, and the privacy of pay phones. Tethered selves, they try to conjure a different future from the one they see coming by building on a past they never knew” (265). Teenagers as well as adults speak longingly of the days where letters
