Turkle’s main point of argument is that cellphones are taking us to places where we don’t want to go. She believes that our devices are changing who we are and what we do. She uses the examples of how people text, shop, email, go on social media during school, meetings, funerals, and while being together. She says that while people want to be together with each other, they want to be else where as well and have control of where they put their attention. She uses the term “Goldilocks Effect” where people can control who they are with and the amounts they are with them over the phone. They can be with each other while not being physically with each other. She believes we cleaned up human connection ships with technology because we can touchup what we say, or how we look, or delete a message, or change a message. This is not how you have a relationship in real life. Real life you don’t get to think about what you are going to say, you don’t get to delete something you said, or touchup your face or body or voice. She says by using technology we are setting ourselves up to be isolated though we feel the opposite because we can be In touch with more people at once. I agree with her claims I feel she has made an accurate and understandable claim and I agree with everything she has to say, yet I fall into the category of using technology on a daily basis and I let it take over my life sometimes as I push people away because Im invested in a conversation i’m having over the phone or I would rather be focused on something on my phone than the thing that is going on in real life around me.
