Stop Googling Let's Talk By Sherry Turkle

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It is clear that electronic devices are helpful to our life. They make our life more convenient and comfortable. However, are devices really making our life better? Devices, maybe taking away value of face-to-face conversation. Also people are losing their understanding of others’ emotion and feeling. Strongly argued and proven in Sherry Turkle’s article “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.” Devices and technologies are taking over natural of human. That is to be able to understand others emotion and feeling, “She couldn’t read the signals that the other student was hurt” (Turkle, 3) A 15 years old girl could not tell that she made one of her peers felt bad. She doesn’t feel bad, when her teacher tells her about the girl. Students were not developing …show more content…
Nowadays people prefer to spend time alone, with their devices rather than socialize with others. A group of 14 years old boys in a device-free camp, said “Time where you having nothing to do but think quietly and talk to your friends” (Tuckle, 4) shows how they feel with life away from devices. Also shows that without phone, they would be bored, and would rather use their devices than talk to their friends. Devices also change your personality, “Our phones are not accessories, but psychologically potent devices that change not just what we do but who we are” (Tuckle , 6) people should stop carrying their devices everywhere they go. Find a time to leave their devices, so that they can interact and socialize with others. People in this generation are very impatience, they couldn’t be bored/still for short period of time, “Admits she often does not have the patience to wait for anything near that kind of time before going to her phone” (Tuckle, 7) This shows how addictive people are to devices. We grew up with these devices that make us comfortable, and entertained all time. When there is a time without our devices, we often grows boredom and expecting the world to respond like an app, quickly and efficiently. Also known as Katie Davis, “App

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