Sherry Turkle: The Love Hate Relationship With Technology

O’chae Smith
Professor Scheffenacker
English 1010
22, February 2016
“The Love Hate Relationship With Technology”
Can you stand going one week without your cell phone? Technology has become the connection of choice because, it is much simpler. Using technology has become a big deal in modern day because, this is the way of life. I agree, with Turkle because, I too feel technology has changed us. Sherry Turkle is claiming in her essay “Alone Together” that technology is destroying our ability to truly connect with each other because we are more into our phones than to each other.

Turkle feels the first way it is destroying our ability to connect is because people have become confused about companionship. Turkle makes her point of the young

lady on video chat with her grandma but not really paying her any attention because she was too busy on her phone. The young lady grandma only knew she couldn’t see her hands but she didn’t know what she was doing. “They come to accept lower expectations for connection and, finally, the idea that robot friendships could be sufficient unto the day” (Turkle 326). Turkle is showing that we are more into having an internet connection that a personal connection. I agree with Turkle because, the people I interact with today often, trust their friends on the internet instead of the people they actually talk to in person. They would give their online friends more quality time then their friends they see everyday because, they feel the conversation is better.
Technology is also destroying our constant communication by using it so much, that people are so use to having their phones that when they don’t have it they know when it’s ringing or get the feel of it ringing. “ The technology is like a phantom limb, it is so much apart of them” ( Turkle 326). In the quote Turkle is saying that people phones are connected to them like clothing, everyday it is attached to them. Some people can not go one day without their phones. I agree with Turkle because, once I cracked my cellphone and I needed to get it fix I cried the entire time my phone was gone. I only cried because I do a lot on my phone, my phone is very handy. I can type my papers on my phone, send emails, etc.