Technology has been a product of human existence that has evolved according to generational progression. When it comes to technology every generation has approached it quite differently in regards to incorporating it into their lives. Younger generations constantly express their impatience with older generations deliberateness to bring innovative technological advances into their everyday lives, while the older generations are bewildered as to why the younger generations are so eager to incorporate these technologies. Americans today have been told to believe that digital technology is a great way of communicating and connecting with people. Although many people agree that the internet is an exceptional communicating device, others believe
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Though it is agreeable that someone who may not be as social in the real world can be social on the internet, many could still insist that we do not live in the virtual world we lie in the real world and you have to be able to communicate with people all the time. The internet can be used as an extremely useful tool when it comes to communicating with loved ones from different parts of the world, which evidently does not always have negative impact our social interactions. When not physically near each other the internet acts as the strongest connection for loved ones. Jenna Wortham contributes in her article “I Had a Nice Time With You Tonight. On the App.”,to the text They Say, I Say, and thanks smartphone applications and services for the ability to communicate with her loved ones. Wortham disagrees with Sherry Turkle’s opinion on how technology driven people could forget what a face to face communication is like compared to a screen. Worth explains that “if anything, the pervasiveness of technology...has heightened my desire for actual one-on-one meetings”. (396) Wortham describes her experience with on-screen communication as “an appetizer that can delight and satisfy” (396), but it is “no substitute for the real thing...the main course” (396), the face to face
Though it is agreeable that someone who may not be as social in the real world can be social on the internet, many could still insist that we do not live in the virtual world we lie in the real world and you have to be able to communicate with people all the time. The internet can be used as an extremely useful tool when it comes to communicating with loved ones from different parts of the world, which evidently does not always have negative impact our social interactions. When not physically near each other the internet acts as the strongest connection for loved ones. Jenna Wortham contributes in her article “I Had a Nice Time With You Tonight. On the App.”,to the text They Say, I Say, and thanks smartphone applications and services for the ability to communicate with her loved ones. Wortham disagrees with Sherry Turkle’s opinion on how technology driven people could forget what a face to face communication is like compared to a screen. Worth explains that “if anything, the pervasiveness of technology...has heightened my desire for actual one-on-one meetings”. (396) Wortham describes her experience with on-screen communication as “an appetizer that can delight and satisfy” (396), but it is “no substitute for the real thing...the main course” (396), the face to face