“I would rather text than talk”

“I would rather text than talk” Turkle (2012)
The influence of the internet has been most significant in the way it has transformed the lives of young people, according to Furedi (2015). They are growing up today not knowing or wanting to have an actual face to face conversation. They are growing up with the technology that we have become comfortably glued to daily. They use emoji’s when communicating which are just images representing a facial expression, animal, food, sport or location and more. Turkle (2012) says that people say what's wrong with having a conversation is that it takes place in real time and you can’t control what you're going to say. Turkle continues that texting, email, posting, all of these things let us present the self as we want it to be.


Turkle’s TED talk continues to say that people get so used to being short-changed out of real conversation. Because conversations are being short-changed, we turn to social media to say what we are thinking or doing. No one feels they are being listened to. Turkle suggests that this is why it’s so appealing to have a Facebook page or Twitter feed, there are automatic listeners. I know that over the last few years I’ve received more emails at work and bothered by phone calls. I hate the thought of calling people, mainly because I don’t have back up that I called to send as a reminder that hey I reached out to you. Others email as well more often now and only call when they have emailed twice and do not get an instant reply or reply at all. It seems to be bothering us more to just call or talk to a person and have a conversation, and a lack of interest if we do. I hope we can move past that in the next couple years, it is sad to think kids grow up not really knowing how to handle a conversation.

References:

Furedi, F. (2015, February 16). How the Internet and social media are changing culture. Retrieved from http://www.frankfuredi.com/article/how_the_internet_and_social_media_are_changing_culture1
T. (Director). (2012, February). Connected, but alone? [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Xr3AsBEK4

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