I went to Dr. Turkle’s seminar over “The Effects of Technology on Self”. This seminar emphasized the how people are becoming emotionally and physically attached to their cell phones and other electronic devices. I can personal attest to this because I would not stray far from the comfort of my cell phone. Other electronics that I think are having this same affect on people and especially youth are video games. Instead of seeing young kids enjoy the summer days or even vacation their playing video games. The worse thing is people are no longer doing direct conversation they would rather text than call. This allows people to screen what is said. Emotions aren’t the same with all this technology. People don’t connect with their children and children don’t connect to their parents. Pretty soon the world will have more problems with connecting to what is known as humanity. I have to ask the question is the further advancement of technology god for society. We look to social networks to verify emotions that should only take the approval of one’s own continents. Ask are fellow people to verify our reactions to certain things in our personal live by liking a status. Face book, myspace and the future social network twitter are all the same in taking away from the time we use to spend thinking to our self.
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