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    The document summarizes and analyzes Sherry Turkle's article "The Flight from Conversation", which discusses how technology has impacted human communication and relationships. It argues that while technology connects people digitally, it has made people disconnected from real-world interactions and relationships. People now prefer communicating through social media instead of face-to-face, and are becoming too reliant on technology for companionship rather than human relationships. However, technology also makes communication more convenient and has benefits, but should not replace real human interaction and connection.

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    The document summarizes and analyzes Sherry Turkle's article "The Flight from Conversation", which discusses how technology has impacted human communication and relationships. It argues that while technology connects people digitally, it has made people disconnected from real-world interactions and relationships. People now prefer communicating through social media instead of face-to-face, and are becoming too reliant on technology for companionship rather than human relationships. However, technology also makes communication more convenient and has benefits, but should not replace real human interaction and connection.

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    The document summarizes and analyzes Sherry Turkle's article "The Flight from Conversation", which discusses how technology has impacted human communication and relationships. It argues that while technology connects people digitally, it has made people disconnected from real-world interactions and relationships. People now prefer communicating through social media instead of face-to-face, and are becoming too reliant on technology for companionship rather than human relationships. However, technology also makes communication more convenient and has benefits, but should not replace real human interaction and connection.

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    GROUP 4 Members: Fajarito, Guenivere F.,


    Jebulan, Sheena Joy R.
    Malabanan, Christine Jane M.,
    Magpantay, Roilan E.,
    Mendegoria, Erika L.

    Advantages and Disadvantages of Technology in Communication:


    A Reaction Paper to “The Flight from Conversation”

    The article entitled "The Flight from Conversation", written by Sherry Turkle talks about
    how technology affects how people communicate with one another and how it changed people
    who they are in the real world over the years. The article emphasizes that living in a society full
    of technologies limits our growth as human beings. It shows that people like to communicate
    with others using different social media platforms rather than talking face-to-face; hence, our
    society experiences a lack of communication. Technology makes our lives better and
    comfortable, however, it also makes us depend on technology in everything we do in life and, it
    keeps us away from interacting with people personally. It has a big impact on becoming who we
    are because nowadays, we always use these technologies in our daily lives to check our social
    media accounts, to share things about our life and to get information about something, and
    because of that, we tend to forget our true selves and the reality that we have. The truth exists
    that living in a technological world in which we reliant on our devices; making us connected
    digitally but has made us disconnected from the real world itself. Thus, communicating face-to-
    face was still the most effective way to interact; because here, we can build relationships and
    promote trust, enabling us to express our message and for the message to be clear and understand
    by the receiver.
    Over the years, as technology continues to improve, society becomes more dependent on
    artificial intelligence and undoubtedly linked the world together, making us interconnected. As
    stated in her article, "Technology-enabled, we can be with one another, and also elsewhere,
    connected to wherever we want to be", human beings through the help of technology can control
    where we focus our attention like using a smartphone to communicate as if we were in a face-to-
    face setting. I think technology made the world smaller by providing good communication tools,
    made it possible to communicate to our friends, family, and to anyone in a far distance which
    proved that technology is truly significant in human advancement. Nowadays, social media is
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    used to connect and engage customers and prospects on a more personal level. It is also used by
    the masses in spreading news and anything relevant that can potentially change the political
    landscape of a country or a region. Besides, we have indeed become more dependent on
    technology as most of our remote interactions today are done through text messages, emails, and
    social media platforms. According to www.debate.org, a big percentage of their respondents
    believe that humans are becoming too dependent on technology with a result of 84 percent while
    the remaining 16 percent disagreed. In today's class setup, it can show that we reliant on
    technology for us to be safe while continuing our studies due to pandemic. There is no question
    that such high-tech devices have enriched our lives and made everything easy but in this age of
    uncertainty, over-reliance will be harmful because we will be left helpless if technology fails us
    one day.
    Additionally, we've become accustomed to using technology as it eased our lives and our
    communication with the universe. Turkle says, "Researchers around the world are busy inventing
    sociable robots, designed to be companions to the elderly, to children, to all of us." With all of
    the revolutions, modern technology has also made our lives easier, better, and more fun. There is
    no doubt that technology continuously advances in each passing day; great minds invent more
    and more useful things and machines which lessens the burden of every people. In my opinion,
    technology like the sociable robots gives us temporary companionship that provides automatic
    listeners and to have someone to comfort us even it has no experience of the arc of human life.
    According to www.aginginplace.org, robots nowadays are being built to have impressive
    dexterity allowing them to help people to move objects themselves faster and smoother. In my
    point of view, I can say how technology had a great effect on our everyday lives, and how we
    rely on these inventions like robots and other machinery that provides for our needs and wants.
    In this time of pandemic where we lack social communications but smartphones are there to
    make a way of socializing with others, online education was conducted and made possible with
    the devices and gadgets. But then, at the end of the day, there won't be any other technology and
    great inventions that can replace a real person, we are all humans after all.
    By constantly relying on cell phones and computers to have a conversation with
    someone, people are losing their ability to connect and make in-person relationships. As stated
    by Turkle, "We expect more from technology and less from one another and seem increasingly
    drawn to technologies that provide the illusion of companionship without the demands of
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    relationship." I agree with Turkle that most of us are too dependent on technology to the point
    where we are losing personal connections with the people around us. We want to customize daily
    life and prefer to talk with robots even it have no real understanding of what we are saying to
    them in terms of what things mean to us. We were all "alone-together," as Turkle would say. It is
    being together physically, but not mentally and socially. One, in particular, is how adults prefer
    to rely on technology when communicating in the workplace: she says, "A businessman laments
    that he no longer has colleagues at work. He doesn't stop by to talk; he doesn't call. He says that
    he doesn't want to interrupt them. He says they're 'too busy on their e-mails…But I'd rather just
    do things on my BlackBerry." This example shows how people are in the same room, but too
    afraid or don't want to talk to the people around them, unless it is through phones or computers.
    I think that is the reason why, the more people use technology to communicate with one another,
    the more they find themselves "alone- together." As a matter of fact, as people may be
    interconnected through the Internet, they are slowly being disconnected from reality.
    The connectivity of a society's dependence on technology results in social disconnection.
    The rise of modern technology keep us connected with current relations and it has made to build
    social interaction in simple way, but it always had negative effects. Technology has allowed us
    to have a social connection that was impossible before but, the fact remains that it slowly ruining
    the quality of social interaction that we all need as human beings. The society become too
    dependent on technology these days that losing it, even for a day, would be extremely
    inconvenient, and for some, life-altering. As of now, we should value and practice the essence of
    face-to-face communication than connecting with other people only through technology, before
    it's too late.

    Bibliography

    Aging In Place. (2021, April). Technology in our life today and how it has changed. Retrieved
    from Aginginplacd.org: https://aginginplace.org/technology-in-our-life-today-and-how-it-
    haschanged/?
    fbclid=IwAR2Qnhu8X61DlF141igyfFwRa8wPRTQ7aMvfojDUj_Vx14jrv35VOekDqY
    Bontanon, L. M. (2019, October 9). Scribd Inc. Retrieved from An analysis of “The Flight from
    Conversation” by Sherry Turkle: https://www.scribd.com/document/428422096/The-
    Flight-from-Conversation-by-Sherry-Turkle
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    Capistrano, J. (2016, April 23). Are we too dependent on technology?. https://xenlife.com.au/are-


    we-being-too-dependent-on-technology/
    Turkle, S. (2012, April 2012). New York Times. “The Flight From Conversation.” 

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