Analysis Of The Paradox By Timothy Stobierski

Breaking tragic news to someone over the phone is tough, that is why many choose to simply send a text instead. Texting can be an easier option, but in the long term it will change the way we communicate in all aspects. The Author of the essay “The Paradox” is Timothy Stobierski. He has a BA in English and uses the scientific method in much of his writings. He uses cause and effect often as seen in “The Paradox” and allows the reader to choose a side. In the essay he examines the new age use of technology and examines the repercussions of it. In the short essay he believes, in much of it ,that social media is weakening the ties of real world communication. Stobierski never goes on to make a consis statement about the effects of using social

Although the idea that texting and online communication is weakening our ties to actually being able to have face to face communication is common, it is not so true and I agree with Stobierski in that this social form has both positives and negatives, but the repercussions of texting and online communication ultimately outweigh the bright side.

To begin, the masses have not always been a text first call second society, but recently that has been the culture. In the essay Stobierski says “The only people I actually speak to over the phone; my bank or any other administrative service, wrong-numbers, and my mother.”(Stobierski 67). In this quote from the essay he points out the fact that he personally does not use calling as a main form of communication. He is not out of the ordinary with this considering most people use texting as the main form of communication. He then goes into detail about who he actually does speak to on the phone and they include a select few callers. They are calls that are necessary to be on the phone and are very

The author states”...when hearing another person 's voice coming out of a receiver of a telephone becomes too intimate to bear, what does that say about our society..”(Stobierski 68). This statement sets up the fact that, many common operations of life require a person to talk on a phone and when they are unable too the world which has changed under the radar will create a major problem. Many jobs require the art of talking on a phone and this very subject was brought up in the essay with “I know people my own age who have been fired from jobs or who have turned jobs down because of their reluctance to answer telephones.” (Stobierski 68). The fact that is even a problem single handedly proves that the idea of Stobierski in that, not using the cell phone for common communication is harming the modern