Stop Googling Let's Talk Summary

In the topic, “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk,” writer Sherry Turkle finds and records her findings about how the digital age has changed modern day human. She even tells what can be done for it, and how this addiction can be removed. In general, she is just telling the disadvantages or problems that these cellphones are causing to the society. In the starting few paragraphs of the article she talks about her results when she was asking some young minds what they thought about cell phones. Students told her about “rule of three”, which means if in a group at least three people are paying attention, then others are free to look on their cell phones. This was actually something new to him because as a college student I have seen that many …show more content…
One college student just took this problem to another level by saying that it’s not the cellphones that are the problem, it’s what cellphones do to the social connections between people. This might be true because texting is usually fine, but it’s not fine when someone is texting without any reason when he came out with his friends and not alone. Texting is a way to connect to people when they are not near, and not use it when you are with your friends or family unless it’s necessary. Texting with friends near is like the friend came out alone, and not with someone. So, it just makes things complicated because the friend might think that he doesn’t like to be near me, and it might lead to friendship breakup which is not a good thing. Author states that studies have shown that when two people are talking only the presence of a phone on a table or in front of their face changed the talk or the feeling of connection. This is true because I have seen many people that can’t stay away from their phone when they are in front of them on a table. I know this for a fact because this has happened to me a lot of