Waking up in the morning, I tried to reach my smartphone to check what time it was and if anyone had contacted me by the time I turned off my phone. Then I realized that I could not use my smartphone for the day before the sundown because of the journal assignment. It reminded me of my watch which I left on the bookshelf alone since the day I moved into the room. After living without my phone and computer for one day, I was firstly overwhelmed by discomfort and insecurity then along with usual satisfaction, and I began to realize that technology is deeply intertwined with my life, but I still have the initiative to decided the way technology influences me.
People get used to lives filled with phones and Internet. It can be seen everywhere that people check their phones, even when they just wait in a line for a cashier for minutes. Technology intrudes into the whole society. For me, without my phone, I was like fish without water. I kept stopping myself from trying to take out my phone to check phone …show more content…
Gradually, I started to get used to the absence of technology and I seemed to reach a kind of calm that could not get interrupted by any technology. It created a “solitude” that gave me space to think, to find out my real relationships with my friends, and to evaluate what “we” should be like without our seeming intimacy achieved on the social network. Because “these days, being connected depends not on our distance from each other but from communications technology” (Turkle 132). So I decided to go to one of my friends’ apartment to ask her out for dinner without any advanced notification like we used to send messages. I wanted to make sure that our friendship was not connected only because of the Internet. When I saw the unexpected happiness on my friend’s face, I felt that it was surprisingly great to turn off my phone for a
People get used to lives filled with phones and Internet. It can be seen everywhere that people check their phones, even when they just wait in a line for a cashier for minutes. Technology intrudes into the whole society. For me, without my phone, I was like fish without water. I kept stopping myself from trying to take out my phone to check phone …show more content…
Gradually, I started to get used to the absence of technology and I seemed to reach a kind of calm that could not get interrupted by any technology. It created a “solitude” that gave me space to think, to find out my real relationships with my friends, and to evaluate what “we” should be like without our seeming intimacy achieved on the social network. Because “these days, being connected depends not on our distance from each other but from communications technology” (Turkle 132). So I decided to go to one of my friends’ apartment to ask her out for dinner without any advanced notification like we used to send messages. I wanted to make sure that our friendship was not connected only because of the Internet. When I saw the unexpected happiness on my friend’s face, I felt that it was surprisingly great to turn off my phone for a