https://padlet.com/yhenviene17/z9atee9bxh19 Reflection to Sherry Turkle's "Connected but alone". en-us 2019-10-04 15:01:06 UTC 2019-10-05 15:11:06 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f43c.png yhenviene17 https://padlet.com/yhenviene17/z9atee9bxh19/wish/393606879 In the last few weeks our teacher made us watch a video, Sherry Turkle's "Connected, but alone? ". In her talk, she started it with how technology is changing our lives. Turkle brings up a good point about how technology and these little devices have really changed what we consider acceptable in society. Texting during breakfast, meetings, classes, and even while talking to someone. And were accepting these and considering it as normal. Technology doesn't "just change what we do, it changes who we are" and as i listened to her, i thought "damn she's right". It also made me remember of that one time where i lost my phone and it took a week before i got a new one. During those days, I noticed the difference from when i still had my phone. I was able to actually get things done and have time for myself. It also surprised me when I got to fill some pages of my sketch book. I love fashion designing, but for years I wasn't able to draw a single sketch. All it took was for me to lose my phone. That was a year ago and that is also my last drawing. I just realized how technology changed me and made me forget the things i love,  the things I used to do, and the things that used to make me happy.

I also agree with her when she says that too much control over what people choose to write in texts or how close people choose to be to others around them may sound like a good thing but is actually not. For example, when we want to avoid real face to face confrontations or being put in situations we cannot control, we tend to always resort to our phones instead. To send them a text containing what we want to say or talk about, but without having to look at them in the eye or give them a chance to express themselves in response to our words. We do not say when we are hurt but rather we just send a nonchalant text message and making it as a joke. We are running away from real conversations and in these sense, we lose real human connection. We don't know how to deal with each other anymore and were missing those deep relationships that is supposed to feed into our lives. We need to learn how to reconnect and this is not something that will happen on its own. We have to choose to have these connections.]]> 2019-10-04 15:03:17 UTC https://padlet.com/yhenviene17/z9atee9bxh19/wish/393606879