Sherry Turkle on social network alone
Relations / / December 19, 2019
Sherry Turkle studies how people grow apart because of smartphones and the Internet. She believes it is a serious problem, because of which many people find themselves alone, without even realizing it.
How many messages per day do you get? And how many are sending? Just 10 years ago, mobile phones (and especially smartphones) were not such a common occurrence. Now even the kids do what previously could not even think of an adult.
These mobile devices and social networking applications along with e-mail applications to drastically change our lives and us. We check email or surf the tape in social networks over breakfast, in the toilet, in transport and during meetings with friends. Children complain that parents give them a little time, while during the meetings themselves almost do not interact with each other - everyone sits buried in phones or tablets. If earlier children ran together, played in a school or a hospital, but now they comment on photos and statuses of each other, while being in the same room.
Psychologist Sherry Turkle examines this phenomenon more than a year and considers it a serious problem. Because soon we just Unlearning to maintain an interesting conversation, in reality, not in the chat, and forget what it is - a living communion. Because it is easier. So we can keep everything under control and edit, edit, edit.
A live chat requires effort. And a real relationship, too. But we have not before. We want to be aware of everything, know all the handshakes and 5 at the same time keep them at a comfortable distance of us. And it is - the most insidious trap of loneliness.