The Empathy Diaries
The first section of the book began to introduce the ideas that Turkle would be revisiting throughout the book, setting the stage for what the book would be about. This section makes the claim that we are straying from good conversation, and need to get back to real, in person conversing. A passage that really spoke to me was “It all adds up to a flight from conversation--at least from conversation that is open-ended and spontaneous, conversation in which we play with ideas, in which we allow ourselves to be fully present and vulnerable, Yet these are the conversations where empathy and intimacy flourish and social actions gain strength.” (Page 4) This passage brings up two big relationships in my life, my best friend and …show more content…
This section is like another introductory section, leading up to what the book will be discussing from now on. A passage in this section makes me think of my home life, “A ten-year-old in New York tells me that he and his father never talk alone, without the interruption of a phone… Why is that? ‘Because there might be an emergency.’ So far, no emergencies have come up, but on the walk to the corner store, he takes calls.” (Page 26) This reminds me of my dad, and how he acts. He is the manager of a few hundred salesmen, so he occasionally does have emergencies about certain things, and needs to respond quickly. It seems like whenever we are out to dinner, or watching tv as a family, he is on his phone or laptop, making sure work is fine. This is all fine for me, because I am guilty of using my phone a lot, but it does have an effect on my 7 year old brother, who now constantly is asking for entertainment during dinner, instead of having a conversation with his family. There are some times where he will put away his work, and have genuine conversations with us, but it is usually only at the demand of another family member, for example, during a family dinner, my step-mom might ask him to put his phone away, and converse with all of us over a
The first section of the book began to introduce the ideas that Turkle would be revisiting throughout the book, setting the stage for what the book would be about. This section makes the claim that we are straying from good conversation, and need to get back to real, in person conversing. A passage that really spoke to me was “It all adds up to a flight from conversation--at least from conversation that is open-ended and spontaneous, conversation in which we play with ideas, in which we allow ourselves to be fully present and vulnerable, Yet these are the conversations where empathy and intimacy flourish and social actions gain strength.” (Page 4) This passage brings up two big relationships in my life, my best friend and …show more content…
This section is like another introductory section, leading up to what the book will be discussing from now on. A passage in this section makes me think of my home life, “A ten-year-old in New York tells me that he and his father never talk alone, without the interruption of a phone… Why is that? ‘Because there might be an emergency.’ So far, no emergencies have come up, but on the walk to the corner store, he takes calls.” (Page 26) This reminds me of my dad, and how he acts. He is the manager of a few hundred salesmen, so he occasionally does have emergencies about certain things, and needs to respond quickly. It seems like whenever we are out to dinner, or watching tv as a family, he is on his phone or laptop, making sure work is fine. This is all fine for me, because I am guilty of using my phone a lot, but it does have an effect on my 7 year old brother, who now constantly is asking for entertainment during dinner, instead of having a conversation with his family. There are some times where he will put away his work, and have genuine conversations with us, but it is usually only at the demand of another family member, for example, during a family dinner, my step-mom might ask him to put his phone away, and converse with all of us over a