Mark Zuckerberg's Generation Why, Stop Ceiling

Kira Patel is an applied psych and human development major, she chose this major because of her future aspirations of becoming a guidance counselor, its flexibility, and versatility in career choice options. Her aspirations of becoming a guidance counselor correlate with her belief that people should do what you love; choosing a job that does not pay as much is more important than having a job that pays a lot. Unlike myself, Kira lived with both of her parents, her entire life. Her mother is Catholic and her father does not proclaim having any religious beliefs. However, both of her parents are morally righteous and never forced any religious or political views on her. As a young adult, she confirms her religious beliefs as a devout Catholic …show more content…
Her friends have contributed largely to her BC experience yet she appreciates the Jesuit and liberal arts education that emphasizes being men and women for others.

During our Dharma Dialogues, we read Generation Why, Stop Googling. Let’s Talk, and Among the disrupted, which are all centralized around the deficits of our growing dependency on technology. In our first meeting after reading Generation Why, we came to a consensus that regardless of its helpful communication methods that the author slandered, Facebook is self-destructive. It encourages people to live a façade, making it incapable to be oneself. Furthermore, everything within Facebook is reduced to the size of its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, a sophomore at Harvard from a suburban neighborhood. But people are much different from Mark and if that possibility of being secure with others differences was created within a platform like a Facebook it would be more useful. In Stop Googling. Let’s Talk, we agreed that society is becoming heavily dependent on technology that it is oblivious to its deficiencies. Human beings are social beings and our interactions with others make up most of our life …show more content…
Although most of this is attributed to the one on one setting, Kira allowed me to share things about myself and my upbringing that I would not share with others. I doubt that neither myself or Kira found the hour without access to our phones, challenging as we are not as attached to our phones as the average person. Given that the conversation mandated a reflection paper at the end, I was more inclined to listen to understanding than to respond which I appreciate because I built a bond with a person outside of class. Nevertheless, I found myself over acknowledging and not listening in silence uttering “yes” or “exactly” several times as I was nodding. Thankfully, after the first two meetings, the over acknowledging subsided. Due to not wanting to dominate the conversation, I found myself letting Kira take the lead in asking and answering questions. I wanted to attempt a new approach in my style of conversing that promoted inclusion and being welcoming. My thought process during the conversation was different from normal due to usually being the only minority in a class, I am psychologically pressured to articulate and pre-calculate my thoughts so I am not made ridicule for misrepresenting minorities. Compared to other methods of communication, this has to be the best considering that it was intimate and in person, there were no misinterpretations only genuineness, an aspect of communication that is virtually nonexistent in the