Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Technology has become an architect of our intimate relationship. On-line, we became victims of fellow fantasies, gathered thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends and confused tweets and postings on the wall through real communication. However, as MIT's technical and social expert Sherry Turkle said, this cruel relationship brought about a new kind of loneliness. Along with the development of technology, our emotional life has gradually weakened. Independently, Turkle has been searching for living in digital terrain for nearly 15 years. Based on hundreds of interviews, it describes new worries between friends, lovers, parents and children, and how we understand privacy and the community, new instability of intimacy and loneliness

Today I will focus on connectivity and the possibility that it can cause many problems in interactions with other users. In her book, together alone: ​​Why do we get more from technology and expect less from each other? Sherry Turkle researched a group of young researchers "always on the Internet wirelessly and online all the time". Turkle talks about her technical issues and hopes that people will face the reality of our collapsing society. A young man in her twenties said that the connection had him a better person, more sociable and more confident. Technology plays an important role in his life. The majority of what we use today with our tools today is strange or disturbing a few years ago, but now we are familiar with us. For example, it is common to be with a friend, to attend a meeting, to answer a cell phone, or to reply to a text message.

Many other writers focus on the impact of technology on personal relationships. Independence: Why do we create more from technology and less each other? Turkle (2012) studied the influence of technology on family relations. After interviewing over 300 young people and 150 adults, Turkle discovered that children are often complaining about their parents' interest in technology. Mr. Turkle discovered that many children think that their parents are not worried about themselves than smartphones.

Turkle has recorded a commitment to smartphones and other new technologies in the previous book "Singly: Why do we expect more technology and fewer technologies?" Now she is writing about the growing dissatisfaction. Children asked their parents to hang up at dinner and when a friend "pauses" the topic and disappears on the smartphone, people are neglected. Diagnostic core diagnosis of Turkle: In friendship, family, relationships, and work, "We turn our attention to our phone, not to each other"

Sherry Turkle's novel 'Single: Why do we expect more from technology?' (2011) presents many controversial ideas and how much skill is the complexity of our lives It is an example of a relationship that shows whether you can replace it. This book is divided into two parts. The first part is the relationship between social robots and people. The second half is very different, focusing on its existence in the online world and society. - After reading Sherry Turkle's book "Alone Together" I feel very complicated. I think this book was not well written, and may have been written better. The way Turkle made this book bore me, I did not intrigue him. On the other hand, it gives me an inspiration for the conditions technology is in the whole society. I am tired of reading a part of the book. I think authors can sort it better.