Sherry Turrkle The Flight From Conversation

In the narrative The Flight from Conversation by Sherry Turkle, she says in this age of mobile devices and Facebook people have sacrificed conversation with connection. People are always on their phones and struggle to maintain eye contact, and when they’re texting in classrooms and even in dates when you are supposed to connect to someone physically and emotionally and instead people act like robots and text even on dates and probably other social occasions. All this meant to show how people have become less social due to their phones always sending texts or emails and shopping online when they should be focused on where they are who they’re speaking to and what time it is. And this is a reasonable conclusion in our modern society people,

Something she mentions most is connection versus conversation and that modern devices that allow mobile connection affect the lives of all who use them young and old it changes how they act towards other people how they run their businesses and who they are. In Turkle’s narrative people have become accustomed to being enabled by technology, we are “alone together”. We are able to be somewhere and elsewhere connected to whatever or wherever we want to be. Because of this we only focus on things we are interested in, though. this can seem nice, but it ends up separating us from one another, people don’t stop by to talk or call, they don’t want to be interrupted people would rather just do things on their

Actual conversation moves slowly, but when we communicate digitally we are expected to be fast and efficient the more we text the fast people respond. She keeps using the word connect versus conversation and she uses it so much it almost loses its meaning Connect means “to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind” while Conversation means “conduct, behavior; oral exchange of sentiments, observations, opinions, or