Connected, But Alone? by Jazmine Mercado https://padlet.com/jazmercado025/ngrsn4gp99cx What happens if we all unplug? en-us 2019-10-15 07:21:03 UTC 2024-05-26 05:48:58 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f914.png Mrs. Sherry Turkle comments that today people use technology to connect more often than the face-to-face connection. People are lonely while they are afraid of intimacy. They spend overweight time on the virtual world to the connection rather than focus on the real world. However, she ends her conversation with a wish that technology could lead people back to the real lives, communities, and the actual planet. jazmercado025 https://padlet.com/jazmercado025/ngrsn4gp99cx/wish/397816224 Personally, I myself is an addict when it comes to texting before when being "jejemon" is still so lit. I used to join text clans and send gm's or group message to my friends even if were sitting together. I love the attention I get in texting because most of the time they reply so quick. I loved that  I know someone listens to me and pays attention to me. I text    anywhere anytime even at class and yes, I have perfected the technique of texting while making an eye contact, its one of my talents. 

This addictions stop when I realize that while I'm getting closer to strangers, I move away to my friends and my family and I'm not paying attention to my studies anymore, so I choose to unplug.  Until now, I move away from my cellphone because I can get easily tempted and get addicted. Now I see a big difference of unplugging yourself, you get to interact and have friends more. 

Talking rather than texting build my confidence and social skills. Right now, I'm happy to the results, and even if I don't get to chat with many strangers at least I get to talk to people I know, and I don't feel alone. As I observe to those people who are dependent on their phone or those who are quite, they are the ones who get depressed easily. Most people depend on their phone today, I find it alarming. 

I agree that technology have changed our communication. Our network becomes larger and access to wider audience but let us not technology deceive us, we are social being, talk  and have some real conversation and unplug every once in a while.




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