Emily Witt Love Me Tethered

In today’s world, there are a growing number of social media apps. Innovators everyday are coming up with new ways friends and strangers can stay connected, or meet for the first time. Emily Witt attended the University of Colombia to earn her graduate degree. Emily Witt writes, “Love me Tinder” which is one of many literature pieces Witt has written. In “Love me Tinder” she talks about how the dating world is changing with new matchmaking apps to connect an individual to another, then talks about how it has advantages of these apps or sites coming out. Sherry Turkle, a professor of social studies and technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology writes “Growing up Tethered” which she talks about how technology is changing how people

For example, everyday people post on social media their political opinion or perhaps a new song that came out, and the person will tweet “I low key like this song” with whatever song title. When something like this is posted, it is showing to all their followers what they like. Turkle talks about how social media lets people be themselves. Similarly, Witt says how meeting new friends and dating is evolving around the younger generations. Witt explains how people meet others and the dating world has changed drastically recently with dating sites is. She even goes as far as givings statistic of the number of people who met through dating sites that are now married. According to Witt, the recent development of online dating sites is changing certain things, “… we think about meeting, mating, and long-term relationships”(270). The dating sites that Witt talks about like Tinder is giving people to express who they are and as previously stated, people get this confidence when talking to others or giving their opinions behind a phone. The changing of how we meet new people is far different than it was years before, people were afraid to be who they actually are because

Turkle describes, the interaction between people is changing for the fact that people just want to have a person to talk to when in need. She continues on by saying young adults need support more than previous generations, with the personalities that are being created so delicately. Although interactions are changing, validation is also changing, and it plays an even greater role in today’s generation. Nowadays, everything is preferred short and fast, and even conversations are even becoming short and to the point. Turkle writes “Exchanges may be brief, but more is not necessarily desired. The necessity is to have someone be there”(241). Today’s conversations are short, but as stated in Turkle’s quote that is not the point, what is important is having someone to connect to when a person need it. Phones allow everyone to be connected anytime of the day, and all someone has to do is text a friend and that friend will usually respond relatively quick, if not on to the next friend. Turkle claims that interactions are changing because of technology, Witt relates to this by online dating allows people to meet new people when they need another person. More and more people are using dating sites to have sex whenever they want to, technology makes it easier to do so. Witt also gives two examples of people who use online dating sites, and then describes one called Tinder and