In a topic-driven, well-organized, and
well-substantiated paragraph, SUMMARIZE Sherry Turkle’s argument—her “they
say”—in her TED Talk: “Connected, But Alone.”
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Gabrielle Tallman
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ENG 1003
15 Tuesday 2015
Turkle's Talk
Sherry Turkle is a TED Talk speaker who brings about the idea of being, "connected but alone." This means that we prefer texting versus talking because we want connection instead of conversation. The feeling of being alone or that no one is listening frightens us, so we are, "tempted by machines that offer companionship." She says that cell phones, "don't only change what we do, they change who we are" because we, "expect more from technology and less from each other." As humans, we like o be in control and be able to focus our attention where we want to, when we want to. We can also focus it how we want to, or as she calls it, the Goldilocks effect. As our cell phones are constantly with us, we can be, "alone together."
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ReplyDeletePeter Cote
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English 1003
15 Sept. 2015
Ted Talk: Connected, But Alone?
While many people believe that being connected to the internet is making their lives better, Sherry Turkle shows that being connected makes people be alone and does not give a person anything more than a fake friend. Sherry Turkle proves that people need to have their phones to feel safe and connected. People don’t want to feel left out of things and not know about the latest news, so they always have their phones with them, sometimes even when they're asleep. Turkle explains that people have become so dependent on technology that they cannot live without it. She explains, about phones, that “they don’t only change what we do, they change who we are.” According to Turkle, people would rather text someone than call, and she argues that more people would rather talk over the phone than speak to someone in person. She shows that phones are a person’s best friend because people always want to be heard, and social media helps give people the illusion that people are listening. Technology comforts people because, according to Turle, it “appeals to us most where we are vulnerable.” Technology is also something people can control, otherwise known as the "Goldilocks effect" as Turkle calls it, which makes technology wanted by the general crowd. People are finding safety in technologies illusion of being a companion, and because that companion does not require friendship, it appeals to most people. The companionship, however, makes people more alone because they are spending more time with their technology than with actual people. People feel empty when they do not have their phone or are not connected online because technology is becoming our reality.
Devante Wrenn
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ENG 1003
15 Tuesday 2015
Ted Talk: Connected, But Alone?
In this world many people believe that the technology today has been by far the greatest thing that has happen to them. It has made people think that it helps us in everyday life and we need it every day. In Turkles way, yes it does help but doing it every day is a bad thing. In Turkle’s speech she says that technology today is making us lonely. We are spending too much time on technology and it is separating us from each other. Then when we do come back to talk to each other it is like we can’t make conversation with each other. She says we feel comfortable texting each other than talking to each other in person. She also says that texting someone is not exactly having a conversation with them. so overall in Turkles speech she says that later on in this world technology will take over us, and soon we won’t do anything and rely on it.
Hunter Hebert
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English 1003
15 September 2015
Connected, but Alone?
Sherry Turkle introduces and exposes the reality that, while most people would think that the advancements in technology have improved their life, it has, in reality, actually pushed them back in their development of life. The internet and cell phones have provided a gateway for the entire world to be connected, and while this has intrigued the minds of people to communicate through the web, it has also created this fear of being “unplugged” and rejected by the real world. People have become so dependent on the connection of technology that it has caused an anxiety to form of being alone, so much that people maintain a constant connection through text, email and social media to avoid the feeling of being alone, or not included. People fill the void of social interaction with online accounts and games, unknowingly losing their ability to participate in true, face-to-face interaction. Technology’s role has gradually shifted from a resource to serving as a security blanket. Turkle states that people are “…tempted by machines that offer companionship”, creating and obsessing over profiles portraying who they want to be in hopes of social acceptance, causing them to lose touch with the real world, and ultimately themselves.
Carter Groomes
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English 1003
15 September 2015
Sherry Is Old but WiseIn Sherry Turkle’s TED talk she explains how technology is taking us places we do not want to, but it changes not only what we do but also who we are. She shows us how we are hiding from each other, and that we choose technology over peoples attention. Sherry explains “We expect more from technology and less from each other”. We are becoming lonelier and lonelier everyday because we are more vulnerable to technology. People want to remain alone with technology as their best friend. In order to get out of this slump we must strive for conversation then the face-to-face connection will come.
Aidan Bish
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SWU English 1003
15 September 2015
Turkle’s “Connected but Alone”
In her Ted Talk presentation, Turkle discusses the long term detriments of overuse of virtual communication. She says that when she first observed early chat rooms and other virtual interactions, she was excited as a psychologist about “the idea that we would use what we learned in the virtual world about ourselves, about our identity, to live better lives in the real world.” However, 15 years of study technology’s effects on our lives has changed her mind. She is now deeply concerned with our eagerness to replace reality with a virtual world. The phones in our pockets offer us three dangerously appealing notions: “One, that we can put our attention wherever we want it to be; two, that we will always be heard; and three, that we will never have to be alone.” Turkle asserts that true, face to face human relationships are vital and cannot be replaced by technology. In fact, she says that our attempts to fill time and solitude with digital connection is a symptom of our changing mindset, not the cause. Her advice is to re-embrace solitude and the beautiful volatility of real interpersonal relationships, because they are a vital part of our psyche. We do not need to abandon technology, she concludes, but “to focus on the many, many waystechnology can lead us back to our real lives, our own bodies, our own communities, our own politics, our own planet.”
Trevor Porter
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English 1003
September 15, 2015
Getting Real on Getting Connected
In society today we have become so involved with our cell phones that we can almost not function without them, we are becoming codependent with them. Sherry Turkle delivered a TED talk on this subject in February of 2012 and centralizes on the phrase, Alone Together. She says that we feel that, "Being alone feels like a problem that needs to be solved. And so people try to solve it by connecting." According to Turkle we are so afraid to be alone, be unconnected, uninformed about the latest news in the word and our friends lives that we feel that we need this information. We then reach for our phone, eventually it gets to the point where we need our phone. Some people begin to sleep with their phone so it's always right by their side, Turkle admits to being guilty of this. Our phones and their social media give us an, "Illusion of Compassion, without the commitment of friendship". We get to have that feeling of having many friends and having a great persona, but we don't have to deal with the drama and pressure of a real relationship. Turkle closes by saying that, "we all need to focus on the many, many ways technology can lead us back to our real lives, our own bodies, our own communities, our own politics, our own planet." She doesn't want us to completely discard our devices because they can be very helpful, she rather wants us to coexist with them, not be codependent of them.
Breanna Roper
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English 1003
15 September 2015
Ted Talk: Connected but Alone
Technology at one time was just becoming relevant, the things we do on our devices now were at one point unimaginable, ideas that no one would have dreamed possible. Our devices of course make things more convenient for us, but it also comes with a price that many people of society have not realized. As we become more indulgent in the newest devices available, our intellect decreases. Our relationships with people become less significant because of the companionship that we build with our cellphones, Turkle describes, with a five inch miniature computer that has never experienced life. She states to her audience that "The devices in our pockets are so psychologically powerful that they don't only change what we do, but who we are". People become so involved in their devices that it takes a toll on their entire life, and the relationships that they have with people. Everyone is constantly distracted by how many likes they got on a picture, how many friend requests they have, how many favorites they got, and so forth. Turkle describes her so called "Goldilocks effect", and how our social media can be manipulated into exactly what we want it to be. Near the end of Turkles argument, she describes that we should focus on how technology should lead us back to our own lives, it should not control it. We need to focus on relationships with actual people and worry less about what is on our devices.
Logan Radwanski
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English 1003
15 September 2015
Turkle Summary
Turkle starts with her opinion of technology how she wrote a book praising it but now her opinion has changed as technology has evolved and our daily use of it. “…What I’ve found is that our little devices, those little devices in our pockets, are so psychology powerful that they don’t only change what we do, they change who we are…” (Turkle) She goes on how the relationships and interactions between people have change from being “rich and messy” to we use technology to “clean them up” so we have more control over them and more “clean”. Then she digs into a truth behind the usage of technology for today, “the feeling that no one is listening to me” so we go onto all those social medias to not feel so alone and we express things on there. Because we know somebody out there on the Internet will see it and the affect on being on our phones, laptops, tablets, and so on make us think those things care for us. Turkle goes about how we call them sociable robots and with her experiment/research on them to her conclusion or realization from this experiment terrified her “We expect more from technology and less from each other.” As she goes to express we are vulnerable and lonely so we use technology as an “illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship” causing the way we think and act to change. With her final words she tells her audience to find solitude for we shouldn’t depend on technology to fill our loneliness for we are only teaching ourselves how to be more lonely and pass it on to future generations. So “develop a self aware relationship” with technology, ourselves, and others.
Anna Newton
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English 1003
15 September 2015
Sherry Turkle explains that technology is taking us places we do not want to go, and it changes whom we are. Now a day’s people would “rather text than talk,” even though a personal conversation helps everyone connect. Because of the loss of these conversations, we feel that no one is listening to us. Siri has become a “new best friend” because people feel like this technology is actually hearing them out. Turkle says, “We expect more from technology than from each other. We are lonely and technology saves us.” With text messaging, social media, and the Internet there is always someone to talk to or something to do. Because this generation is so addicted to technology, we choose to play it safe and have robot friends, instead of devoting our time and love to people.
Austin Bennett
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English 1003
15 September 2015
TED Talk: Connected, but alone
In her TED Talk, Sherry Turkle is telling us that technology in the modern age is taking us in a new direction involuntarily along with changing how we act and behave with others. We have made new "friends" in robots and AIs such as SIRI, due to the realism of these interactions. Most people, it seems, would "rather text than talk" or "want to learn to have a conversation, but not now". This revolution has led people to want more from technology, and less from our friends. We are living in a 1960's idea of the future and are completely taking that for granted. Turkle goes on to say that a real relationship is not comparable to a synthetic, technological one. You do not get the same advantages out of a fake relationship. It's easier for us to have robot friends, because they will not hurt us.
Kaylee Young
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English 1003
15 September 2015
Connected but alone
Sherry Trukle expresses the idea of “connected but alone” in a well-developed idea that technology has replaced conversations among peers. She begins with telling of her own attraction of texting between her and her daughter. Today’s society believes that technology has influenced everyday life in a positive manner. However, it has taken away from deep face to face conversation leading to the urge to be alone. People tend to want to be on their technology so they can be connected but they seem to not realize being alone and connected is not healthy behavior.