I mostly agree with the film’s central premise that technologies represent an “existential crisis” to our lives. In some ways they are over reacting, I do not believe that a civil war is going to happen, or the world is going to end due to social media. I do believe though that we are slowly losing ourselves and humanity to the digital world. We have forgotten how to interact with others outside of social media. We can’t put ourselves in other peoples shoes now, because social media has made us more self-centered. I don’t think that there is a permeant solution to fixing how these technologies run. There is always going to be this constant cycle of like buttons, or threads, or videos everywhere. Even if technology companies tried to make a change, people would find ways around the changes and rules.
Month: October 2024
- When Turkle wrote that we are undergoing “a flight from conversation”, I believe that she meant people don’t want to have face to face conversations anymore. Most of the time, people try to stay out of situations where they are faced to have long conversations with people. We are undergoing this because everyone is chronically online, and the only way we know how to interact with people is through texting. I do agree with most of the arguments that Turkle makes about how digital conversations are affecting our daily lives. I think that it’s much easier to get distracted, or not listen to what people are saying due to the fact of always having our phones in our hands. Not within the people my age do I see a lack of empathy, but in the younger generations, I do see it. Kids are unable to grasp emotional cues from other kids, and I mostly think it’s because they are so enriched in their screen time they don’t have face to face conversations with kids everyday. This makes it hard for kids to understand body language and facial expressions.
