Technology is cutting off physical social interactions

Technology has revolutionized the way we communicate through creating virtual spaces and identities that bring communication to the very tip of our fingers. The increasingly connected society through virtual tech spaces that we live in threatening to cut off physical, social interactions, as seen in David Carr’s called “Keep Your Thumbs Still When I’m Talking to You” and Sherry Turkle’s “The Tethered Self: Technology Reinvents Intimacy and Solitude. ” Technology has bridged the geographical gap that existed before, but at the same, it has widened real-time proximity, which has never been an issue. This can be attributed to the fact that we as a society have allowed it to do so. David Carr explains this unusually well. In almost all the breaks that I encounter, whether in lectures or group meetings, people earnestly take out their smartphones, tablets and other ‘smart’ devices as if they look forward to the opportunity.

I am also a victim. What we do not realize is that we continuously lose the chance of meeting someone new or catching up with a friend. Too many times, we have lost a great chance to engage our fellow flesh-and-blood human beings. We are usually close to each other yet alone. Turkle describes the intimacy as a process, which first began with one-on-one relationships with machines. This then developed into the networked culture where people now use the computer to communicate with each other. Through this, technology now dictates our intimacies Turkle, p. Technology now affects how we view ourselves, and our relationships with others through the processes described earlier (Turkle, p. What Turkle says is true. Turkle gives case scenarios of where teenagers would rather not talk but text.

Mandy, a teenager, tells Turkle that she “dislikes the phone. Mandy also does not to voicemail. ” Mandy continues to say that you would not desire to call because that would have to get one into a conversation and a conversation to Mandy is something that one desires to have when they want to have them (Turkle, p. I’m also attached to my phone, a fact that I regret to admit. Having face to face talks can solve this kind of problem. I think that face to face talks make people feel a certain sense of security. In that way, they cannot feel anxious anymore. Also recently some schools have provided online class. I took online course last semester, and I must admit, it was horrible. My dad watches TV on the iPad; my is texting, my sister carrying out some research on the iPhone.

When I see this, it makes me want to take out my phone and read the comic book. I recently invited my friend go out to eat steak. As we walked into the steakhouse and sat down; he started to text and continued while we talked, but I forgive him. Such behavior needs to stop, and I should have taken David Curr’s advice and condemned it. Eat more snack like Crayfish. Don’t get a psychological addiction to technology. It not just affects our relationship in a negative light. Works Cited Top of Form Reilly, T K.  Behave! Etiquette Lessons for Adults.