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The Flight from Conversation
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Ganibi, Angel Mae
Hernandez, Mark Emil

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Landicho, Amiel Matthew
Magsino, Daven
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 The Flight from Conversation is an article written by Sherry Turkle which was published
on April 21, 2012. It highlights how technologies affect and change individuals deeply on the
way they communicate and interact with one another. Technology provides us different forms of
communication which makes things better and easier but it disengages us from the real world as
it limits our capabilities to communicate and interact with different people. The ideas
emphasized in the article were clearly presented and compelling for it complemented with our
belief that face-to-face interaction or conversation is better than internet communication.

People easily tend to get fascinated by something new. We are captivated by the idea of
trying things out with others. This is what technology offers. Connection keeps communication
between people without having an actual conversation. Because of this, most people don’t
practice face-to-face conversations anymore. Surprisingly enough, Turkle has provided sufficient
information to reinforce our stand on the topic. She had provided constant examples to support
her argument. We believe that her concept of being “alone together” is credible. The romantic
vibe of being “alone together” changed. This concept gives us the new idea of being with
someone without actually being with them. We find it disturbing if someone is preoccupied with
something else while in front of us. It kills the mood. We think that this is due to people’s
obsession to technology. It is truly upsetting to find that people get consumed by technology
gradually without knowing it. It eats up our personality, changing it bit by bit. It may have good
results but it certainly has downsides. We believe that people don’t need to stop embracing
technology, we just need to moderate our usage and keep our priorities straight.

Furthermore, we all know that having a conversation personally plays a vital role in the
life of everyone. It is the foundation of a good and strong bond between peers, lovers, and family
members. However, as what we have read on the article of the New York Times, it clearly stated
the dilemmas that everyone is facing regarding the concept of “face-to-face” conversation. As a
16-year old boy once stated, “Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I’d like to learn how to
have a conversation,” it emphasizes his desires to have a real-life conversation while not basing
on the use of social media. We truly feel that the boy have in mind this problem but the real
answer is to solve it now. It saddened us a lot to hear those thoughts from teenagers like us who
didn’t have that much awareness regarding the importance of having face-to-face conversation.
The widespread of social media is one of the reasons why these things are happening but we
don’t have to blame the person for it. Action speaks louder than voice, and so does face-to-face
conversation. Seeing the person we talk to directly in the eyes gives us the feel of sincerity,
affection, and mutual feelings. Relying on online platforms might probably give us the lack of
self-confidence in expressing our thoughts as we are trapped in our screens and we don’t want to
escape it. Furthermore, we lean on technology like it is our best companion but it is not clear to
us that as we engage more with it, we are becoming puppets of technology. Having someone
near us is one of the happiest feelings we will have. The feeling of satisfaction, comfort, and
safety with someone we want to spend our whole day give us the idea that we are not alone in
this world. We should develop our communication personally because it will slowly mold us to
become successful in the near future. We don’t need to isolate ourselves, so go and wander
through the edges of the world.

Additionally, many people nowadays, especially teenagers, express their grievances on

social media. It seems that we prefer typing letters on the screen of our cellphones to burst every
thought we have instead of calming ourselves down and looking for someone we can talk to and
someone who can understand. One of Turkle’s ideas was the concept of “No one is listening to
me.” There, she clearly emphasized that relying on gadgets is just an excuse for people who do
not feel the sense of belongingness. We only seem to give ourselves the illusion of
companionship and expect less from other people. It seems like we are just looking for social
comfort and drawing sympathy to be noticed, a habit that shouldn’t be practiced. For us, Turkle
was right, drawing out our attention too much on social media and ignoring the people around us
is just awfully wrong. People today are relying too much on technology for everything, even
finding sympathy on social media. The more we use technology, the more insecurities we will
get. We should wake up and live in reality, not in fleeting comfort and assistance brought by
technology. Our group believe that conversation in the real world is a must and should not be
neglected. It’s not that people don’t want to talk to us, we are just expecting less from them.

Surprisingly, it gives a nostalgic vibe reading an article published 8 years ago about the
connection as a problem; here we are, still into it. Many years have passed and our group thought
of, “Wow, why can’t we still get enough of it?” Simply because it became part of our lives – of
our personality. We are becoming more dependent to connection and are slowly changing
ourselves. We commend what Turkle, S. (2012) said in this article of her, “When people are
alone, even for a few moments, they fidget and reach for a device. Here connection works like a
symptom, not a cure, and our constant, reflexive impulse to connect shapes a new way of being.”
That statement really convinced us and made us think deeper. Our group was like, “Why did we
become like this?” If we would go to our timeline and check our posts from previous years, we
can observe that we have changed. We even find our old selves gross, but if we would dig
deeper, in our bedroom, sitting alone, turning off our phones, we could ask ourselves again,
“Why did I get upset when my post yesterday got no reactions?” Another statement in this article
that really moved us is, “Think of it as ‘I share, therefore I am.’ We use technology to define
ourselves by sharing our thoughts and feelings as we’re having them.” Upon thinking of the
situation mentioned above, that very moment where we can finally reflect and check ourselves, is
when we will realize who we really were and who we’ve become. As we grow older, we
discharge ourselves from the real world. We enjoy the peace that we are getting from that
“customized connection”. Casually speaking, solitude left the group. This 2012 article is
amazing and can be a great reference for those who will wish to study the greatness of face-to-
face conversation.

All things considered, we concur with what the author implies because it complemented
with our belief which is personal conversation ought to be more practiced in our everyday lives
than online connection. This is due to the fact that it lets us have real quality time with others and
it teaches us how to convey our thoughts efficiently. Besides, it opens room for better
communication and it helps us to characterize our own selves better. Notwithstanding, we can’t
deny that communication through the use of internet is not completely a terrible thing. Regarding
this, we should examine ourselves all the time to see whether our deeds show sacrificing
conversation for momentary connection such as what is mostly happening at this day and age. If
this particular situation remains relentless, it is not impossible that the time would come wherein
an individual couldn’t even ask a simple question to someone personally for the reason that he
doesn’t know how to converse in the right way. To prevent this from happening, Turkle’s article
stated a straightforward yet astonishing solution which is to look up, look at one another, and
start the conversation because as Thomas Leonard said, “All problems exist in the absence of
good conversation.”