Are we constantly fixated with social media, (Facebook, Google+, etc), is this just something that we have to accept as part of our daily existence? Is this a passing fad? Has Facebook had its time?* Are we finally getting fed up of having to feel that we need to keep all of these up-to-date and do we really need to know what happens to our so called 'friends'? Just a few of the questions that are bugging me. Are we simply just too overloaded with tech?? http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120703-tackling-technology-overload (Prof Turkle argues that the social media we encounter on a daily basis are making us emotionally lazy and insensitive to fellow human beings). After reading this and watching the video above, have a think about it and some of the questions below to help you with your response. What are your thoughts about our fixation with social media? What do you use, why do you use it, how often do you use it? Do you use it too much or too little? Do you approach your 'friends' differently using social media? How do your parents approach social media with you, do they restrict you in any way, why might they set boundaries? Is social media making us lazy, are we losing our ability to interact with each other personally? (*Facebook: According to GlobalWebIndex Q4 2012, it suggests that local social media sites are in decline and Facebook may have gotten over its 'fatigue', while Google+ is now the 2nd largest social platform)
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1/26/2014 02:14:20 am
Are social media and electronic devices taking over our lives?
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Rishabh Jain
1/27/2014 10:49:38 am
I am in acceptance of the content you published. According to me, the loss of face to face conversation is a evolutionary threat to the generation coming. As in the older generation, every event was held face to face, and mobiles were just a telecommunication device, but due to the revolutionary in build processing in the latest mobile phones and technological devices, people have lost the tradition of talking to each other. Also, all this is leading to threat to academic performances in students, but not that much in adults. This distinctions is often due to maturity levels in adults, and the characteristics of using every thing in a limit so that it doesn't becomes a threat to anyone.
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valentina
1/28/2014 08:34:58 am
Serena i really like the way you explain your thought about Professor Sherry, and i agree with you on most of the things you said. I think there would be a possibility to change the technological development.
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Kelani Mueller
1/28/2014 10:45:29 am
This is very true. We have lost the skill to interact with each other face-to-face, and our society is too tied up to electronic devices. It is substantial to limit the amount of time, that we spend on electronic devices. But how would we do this? A bunch of people rely on electronic devices to communicate with each other, especially long distant people. People seem to be constantly fixated with the newest iphone generation, or the newest tabloid, and computer. Would we have to warn people that students have decreased their grades after using facebook or the fact that we are more prone to depression, anxiety, and other psychological disorders. There would have to be some sort of way to stop our over usage of electronic devices and social media.
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Iman Mirza
1/29/2014 01:09:06 am
Serena, I agree with you when you talk about how new generations are losing their social skills and cannot interact with humans face-to-face. I find your idea about "emotional laziness" very true, as I can think of a lot of people it applies to. As you mentioned, so many people own iPhones, iPads, iPods, etc., that they're basically living their life online, instead of meeting new people, or experiencing new things that might help them grow as human beings.
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Mayra Eren
1/29/2014 03:25:12 am
Serena, I agree with what you are saying. Social media is not only shaping the way people communicate with each other through the internet, but also shaping what used to be everyday, face to face communication. This is something that not many people realise. After seeing how easy it is to talk to someone online, without having to look at their face to continue a conversation, it becomes harder to be able to continue a face to face conversation with someone. There is no longer a balance of social media and normal communication. Even talking on the phone has become rare, and tends to make people nervous since it means that they will have to directly reply to a question that is being asked and will not be able to tell the person that they are talking to that they did "not see the message". A worrying fact is that 25% of the facebook users in 2010 were under the age of 10. This shows that the children were most probably also using other social media, and even if they were not this would have affected them tremendously. The problem here is that children are learning to avoid their problems facing people before they learn how to solve the problems. I believe that if someone learns how to solve a problem by confronting someone about it, and then choses to go online it is not the best solution, but if children are simply text messaging people to solve their problems without learning how to do it properly first this is a problem. This brings another question to mind; what is a proper solution to a problem you are having with someone? Today it may be seen as talking to their face instead of messaging them online is a better choice. The problem is that maybe a few years from now face to face conversations will almost be non-existent. We are living in a generation that would rather order food via the internet only so that they do not have to talk to the person who will pick up the phone. Where will this go from here?
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Rahmon Chapoteau
1/29/2014 10:42:22 am
Serena, I agree with you about how many people in our generation are using social media websites to the point that we are losing our humane social skills of speaking face-to-face with one another. I just have one question: Would it ok for us as international students to use social media as longer as the average person who uses social media for a very long time? I mean, social media is a form of gaining information and sharing things with one another. Also, since some people live far away from others (about 1-2 hours apart), do you think it is a good excuse to use social media for a long time in order to contact them?
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Caroline Rou
1/30/2014 06:25:31 am
Very nice points Serena! I am in acceptance of the content you published. I believe that social media can be used very easily to communicate with others across the planet. People do, of course, use social media for their own immoral purposes, however, is it really the media that is the cause of this or is it just in the human nature to be abusive of things especially when they can use it to their advantage? I think that what Turkle is really trying to say is that a great part of the population is using the social media as an escape from reality, which could not be more true. There would have to be some sort of way to stop overusing technology.
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Ethan Holmer
1/31/2014 05:56:58 am
Serena I agree completely with this. I strongly agree that technology and social media is taking over peoples lives. I think, this must stop soon before we are all lifeless zombies, who only text no matter if we are alone, or with friends.
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Yasemin Anani
1/26/2014 09:05:16 am
I do agree with Professor Sherry Turkle when she talks about the changes social media has done to us, but I disagree with her idea that we will fix it and start decreasing the amount of time we will have on social media. Our fixation with social media has increased rapidly over the past few years; this fact has its pros and cons. Some say that social media is a great way to get updated and connected to friends and family who live right next to you or across the world. Some say social media is harming the natural and healthy interpersonal relationships and their work performance and many other things. I believe that social media has more disadvantages than advantages.
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Bilge Celebi
1/28/2014 05:57:47 am
Yasemin, I really liked the fact that you explained the truth about the trends (thigh gap) I think that this takes courage to write on a blogpost that is been shared through internet. I find it very inspiring that you can talk about things that take a lot of self confidence.
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Rishabh Jian
1/27/2014 10:37:18 am
Is technology taking over our lives? Are we, as human beings, being fixated to social media, which is just an open ended conversation hub for people to talk to when not in physical contact. According to my personal experience, I have been a mild Facebook user at the time I set up my account, and since then have I experienced the reduction in the utility of these social networking site. These time consuming and addicting discussion centre and profile inspecting sites are much of a waste unless used efficiently and during emergencies. But the word, “efficiency” has been manipulated in different ways, varying for high time usage to low time usage.
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Silvio Bellini
1/28/2014 09:41:13 am
Recently social media has a really strong and important impact on humans. The way we look at it is very useful and necessarily. I don't really agree with Sherry Turkle's opinion in this case. She is looking to this situation from a very basic perspective. It is very much obvious that social media websites are something that almost all of the teens and adults looks everyday that's why i think this situation is never going to be fixed even its going to get worse. People are assuming that there are going to be flying cars on the earth in future, if we are thinking to do this why don't we also add the fact the opinions about people from all over the world into this. It's normal to see on twitter that people share everything what they do. Thats why briefly i think its going to be even worse and more complicated that social media's power will be stronger in our daily lives.
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Filippos Geragidis
1/29/2014 01:20:59 am
I have to say that I do not agree with some of your points, such as that there is no progress made in the technological field ("new inventions", in your own words), because everyone is on social media constantly and cannot work. This is a very general statement, which you do not really have the experience, therefore the right to make. Although various problems are created by social media, not everyone has an addiction which causes them to withdraw from their jobs, therefore to not make any progress at all.
James Symes
1/31/2014 06:32:35 am
The points you make I believe are not valid because you talk about how the internet stunts our mental, technological and cultural advancements. It actually helps us in those areas much more than it damages the advancements.
Kelani Mueller
1/28/2014 11:01:39 am
This is a very interesting point. I have to agree that these social media sites are a waste, unless used efficiently or effectively. I should add that multitasking would also result in unproductively. What would you personally want to say about social media? How has it changed your life? When you do go on facebook or any social media website, what do you use it for? why do you use it? Would you say that you approach your 'friends' differently using social media? Do you think that social media making us lazy, and are we losing our ability to interact with each other, especially face-to-face? What would your response be to the main point that you made: "Would the people accept this as a problem or just be presumed to be habitual and to be continued?
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Kelani Mueller
1/28/2014 11:02:46 am
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Stanislaus Messner
1/30/2014 08:12:20 am
I completely agree with your comment about social media. You have some good points towards the issue and you are describing more issues, which Sherry Turkle did not mentioned. You made your comment interesting, included some facts and completed your comment with an interesting question, one needs to think about.
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Alia Ragab
1/27/2014 01:24:35 pm
Sherry Turkle poses very interesting opinions about social media, and the technology overload, but I disagree with many of her points. As much as Turkle believes that the media is taking over our lives, her only way of spreading the message is through the little Facebook, and Twitter icons beside the video. Turkle is being extremely hypocritical, attempting to spread her message about the overuse of technology and social medias through technology and social media. As much as many people would deny this, the world is developing (although it may not be considered development by many people) into a technology based world. Turkle is not the only hypocrite when it comes to technology, though. All over the world, there are students claiming that the internet and other new technologies are taking over the world, while many parents complain that their children are obsessing over social medias, as they continue to buy the latest devices with the newest cutting edge technologies. For example, in Istanbul International Community School, to be a student there, it is obligatory to have a Macbook Pro, or Air. The school is considered to offer a very good educational system, as it offers the IB. The IB is very dependent on Managebac, and emails, which are very considerably technologies, and every day there are professionals that work on optimising these sites, and many other sites, trying to promote and enhance the technology. Turkle claims that social medias are taking over our lives, but in order to understand the fixation, we need to ask what exactly is social media? Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter seem to take the highest blame when it comes to social medias, but shouldn’t Emailing, Managebac, and Linked-In be considered social medias as well? Why are emails not taking the blame as much as Facebook is, even though emailing offers the same speed, and is used by a wider age group? I disagree with Turkle. The amount of time we use technology is not in our hands anymore, and the future does not offer any turning points in terms of the decrease of the use of technology, it only offers new technologies. Humans are born consumers, no matter how much this is denied, humans enjoy feeling superior, whether it is because you have the newest iPad, because you have the highest number of friends on Facebook, or over 200 ‘likes’ on your photos. We cannot attempt to limit the use of technology, as we are all extremely dependent on it today. As for the point where she claims that we cannot bare solitude, isn’t computer screen solitude? Isn’t looking at 500 or more ‘friends’ on Facebook, and realising you have no one to talk to solitude? Isn’t seeing 500 ‘likes on a post, or having 100 invites from people you barely know count as solitude? Social media users have to chose their own path when it comes to the websites they use, as they do know the pros and cons.
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Alia Ragab
1/27/2014 01:26:04 pm
(Sources: Turkle, Sherry. "Sherry Turkle: Tackling Technology Overload." BBC. N.p., 4 July 2012. Web. 26 Jan. 2014. <http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120703-tackling-technology-
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Melda Alaluf
1/27/2014 02:31:40 pm
I agree with most of the points that you made. I too believe that technology has inevitably become a part of our lives, and due to this, Turkle has resorted to using that as well, which is hypocritical of her. However, I do think that this can be changed. I think that as she suggests it is possible to get this right if we try to use technology more consciously. Technology should be an aid for our communication; it should never fully replace it. If technology continues to grow at this rapid rate, the odds are that later on it will fully replace technology. The interesting thing about social media is that it is intended to be media that makes you more social. It was intended to be used as an extra mode of communication for those who are at long distances from us, etc. However, at this point, ironically, social media is making us more anti-social because how much can we truly communicate using technology. However, I agree with you that Turkle’s methods of achieving this are hypocritical and she is sending the wrong message to the world because she is using technology herself, whilst deliberately speaking against it. In fact, she even talked about the benefits of technology a couple of years before. I think that the reason why technology has gotten out of hand is because even people like Turkle, who should be keeping people in check, are using this technology themselves. I found your reference to the school to very interesting and very true. Nowadays, almost all school work is done on the internet and of course, this gives students a prompt to use even more social media whilst they are supposed to be doing their work. So, my question is: Is technology really beneficial to us? Ideally, it should be. However, in reality, I do not think that this is the case. It is very difficult to use technology in moderation and it being supported at schools does not really help people overcome it. In conclusion, like you, I believe that your personal use of social media is your own individual decision, however people like Professor Turkle cannot expect others to not use it, when they are using it themselves.
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Roberto Votta
1/28/2014 07:41:49 am
Alia, I agree as well as disagree with what you are saying. I agree with the fact that us humans are born consumers and that we will always be consumers to whatever product is found that makes us superior or makes us seemingly work more efficiently. I also agree with the point that we don't realize the amount of real friends that we have and how we do not realize that it doesn't matter how many "likes" we get, and that it doesn't define how many friends we actually have. Furthermore, your comment of technology being the center point of many of our lives for work as well is quite true, and I completely agree with it. What I don’t agree with though is that the fact that Sherry Turkle shared this video on Facebook makes her a hypocrite. What I took from this video is that she is saying that we have become incredibly dependent of these new technologies and that it is indeed killing our social life, not that they should be banned and destroyed for good. She’s saying the abundance of new social media is being overused to the point that it is entering our intimate lives and demolishing our privacy.
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Melda Alaluf
1/27/2014 02:16:14 pm
In the last few years, not only social media, but technology as a whole has truly captivated the entire world. With the invention of the Internet in the last 50 years, the people of the world are now more interconnected than ever through social media. In fact, according to comscore.com, social networking is the most popular online activity worldwide. It reaches a shocking 82 percent of the world’s Internet population age 15 and older that accessed the Internet from a home or work computer, representing 1.2 billion users around the globe. I do agree with this video in saying that society is now constantly fixated with social media, as the possibilities of it are truly endless. However, I think that we must focus on how to use it better in the future because I do not think that it is a passing fad. I do not think that people will ever get tired of social media as a whole, but website trends will come and pass. Social networking and the Internet are constantly developing and there is always something new that is offered. Therefore, I agree that Facebook may have had its time, or if not, it will probably soon. There are constantly new opportunities for social networking websites, and people can get tired of using the same website for so many years. For instance, MySpace used to be very popular, however, according to the Wall Street Journal; they are now laying off 1/3 of their staff. Because of these constant changes and developments in the digital world, it can feel like the whole world is at your fingerprints but that at times, can distract us from the world that is actually physically around us. Therefore, I do agree overall that social media has become a problem because it is overused.
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Alia Ragab
1/28/2014 02:54:32 am
Melda, I completely agree with the points that you made. Technology is being overused, indeed. The justifications properly justify all of the points you made. I find it very inspiring how you managed not to get yourself stuck into the whirlpool of technology, and I do hope it is something you manage to keep up for your entire life.
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Yasemin Üskan
1/28/2014 03:19:18 am
Professor Sherry Turkle explained to us the facts we are yet to except. Professor Sherry Turkle talked about our obsessions on technological devices and our constant urge to communicate with people. She also talked about how the new ways of communication was affecting our daily lives. Yes we are fixated with social media and this is something we have to except. Especially with us teenagers constantly on their phones tweeting or replying to their Facebook messages. Coming to the main focus of this video are we simply just too overloaded with tech? Yes we are overloaded with tech but in my opinion it is not our choice. We are living in a world where people need to adapt their lives to fit in with the community. You can chose to live without technology, without a cell phone or a computer but you won’t be able to make that work. Students these days study with computers not notebooks they use I Pad’s. Most of the jobs you apply for will be asking for computer and technology skills because technology is now a chorus in schools and universities but I guess you can apply to jobs that don’t require computer skills or go to a school that does not have computer and technology lessons but you will still need a cell phone. Crime rates in the world get bigger and bigger so do the environment we live in. People build malls and parks there are concerts and museums where teenagers visit very often and a natural instinct parents have is worry. Parents get worried about our safety and they use cellphones to track us down, call us to make sure that we are safe etc. so when we go back to the question are we simply just too overloaded with tech? The answer is still yes but if you ask me are we overloaded with tech because we chose to be my answer will be no because we don’t choose to be this way we have to be this way.
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Yasemin Anani
1/28/2014 05:33:37 am
I agree and disagree with what you're saying. I think that we do have a choice with using the technology and not using it. However i agree that technology is extremely involved in our lives today. As i said in my blog post there are still people living without social networking, or every a bit of technology. I would argue that it is our choice on using social networking or not, but it would be more of a advantage to use social media because you would be more advanced. Without social networking and technology than we would be more limited and less advantaged.
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Silvio Bellini
1/28/2014 09:51:20 am
I agree with what you're trying to emphasise to us. We could make that decision of using it or not but when you look at this situation again from other people's view it might not be as easy as we think it is. Because there are some people whose life is social media. Besides that, i absolutely that technology is involved our lives very much. In fact, the usage of technology is also helped us to find out new things. I think it's an advantage to stay online in social media if you're not exaggerating. In my opinion as a new generation we wouldn't be comfortable if we didnt have this chance to stay 7/24 online in today's world
Bilge Celebi
1/28/2014 05:49:23 am
I agree with the fact that social media has done a lot of damage to us (especially teenagers) and will still do. Nowadays, fights between teenagers are done through social media and especially cell phones. The fact that one cannot see another makes it easier to write cruel things and easily send it without thinking about the consequences. This is because they cannot see each other face expression and if they did, I am sure that most of the cruel things would not be said. That is why some cruel things are sent behind anonymous screens. Most of the teenagers are scared to see each other after a fight that they had through social media. This is the biggest consequence they do not think about which actually causes anxiety for some teenagers because they do not know whether to talk or how to react. It is very important to think about the consequences after a message has been sent.
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Kelani Mueller
1/28/2014 06:46:18 am
I believe that social media and electronic devices are taking over our lives, both in school and in our own daily lives. Sherry Turkle makes a very valid point, “we’ve created a computer culture, a digital culture that has in some way gone and miss, and we face several futures”. We are now fixated with new apple products, new social media websites, and most of us are now interacting with each other through Facebook, twitter, instagram, and other means of communication. Lots of people seem to be consistently “updating their electronic devices”, and by the next day or two everyone seems to have the newest iPhone generation in their hand. “There is no end to the thing your devices want you to do for them” (Sherry Turkle). Our digital lives seem to be more important than our social lives, now this does not apply to everyone, but enough to be mentioned on many different articles, blogs or websites. But there is also some positive outlook to social media. It allows us to connect with “friends” around the world. This is a question to consider though, “How much time do you spend on Facebook and Twitter? No, seriously: is it an hour a day, or minutes spread over the course of the day?” (The national)
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1/28/2014 02:18:34 pm
Kelani, I have to say you have excellent points and I wanted to discuss a question you had asked earlier,
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Kelani Mueller
1/29/2014 12:15:52 am
This is a very valid point. So i guess there isn't any kind of way to prevent people from not using social media, because people are constantly making "fake accounts, random videos, funny photos, and very distracting things pop up all the time". But could there be some kind of way to warn people about the consequences that social media could have on our lives. Like "being more prone to depression, anxiety and other psychological disorders", "how it has a negative impact in learning, and how it has resulted in lower grades". Although advancements in technology will most likely continue to rise, and might even get out of control.
Parmida Masrour
1/29/2014 09:29:34 am
I totally agree with you Kelani. Social media is taking over our lives. Instead of talking to someone with social media you can easily chat and it is a really fast process. Also i think it is a really interesting point that everyone is getting bored of it. it isn;t as fun as actually talking face-to-face with someone is.
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Adam
1/31/2014 05:51:53 am
I completely understand where you are coming from. I agree that Technology is taking over our lives and that nothing can compete with face to face communication, but at the same time I feel that social media is not a bad thing in the sense it offers a way of communicating when face to face communication is not possible. It can also be a useful asset in schooling.
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Roberto Votta
1/28/2014 07:15:51 am
I agree with Professor Turkle on how we have become so fixated with social media that we are unable to properly interact with one another in real life. No matter how close friends two people may be, people now prefer to communicate to instant messaging instead of meeting up with each other, and in my opinion this kills one of our instincts as human beings. Thousands of years of evolution went into make us what we are right now, a species which is able to communicate with one another in multiple languages if necessary but we seem to be losing this skill because we become fixated with social media and social technology. The people who seem to be most affected by this dramatic increase in the use of social technology are teenagers which find it “cool” to have all these applications and to be able to communicate with people half a world away. We tend to convince ourselves that we are doing it for the right reasons, but in the end, it becomes a tool for procrastination. Personally, I only use Facebook, Snapchat and Whatsapp (this may sound like quite a lot, three different social media applications regularly, but for our generation, it can also be deemed as average, and by some people even few) on a regular basis but I know people who use the entire package of Foursquare, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, etc. to a point where they are unable to have a proper conversation with you when you hang out with them, and they are constantly on their phone even as you try to talk to them. I own a copy of Sherry Turkle’s “Alone Together” and in that book she writes about how people have lost the power to have relationships with one another and so, they started building robots to communicate with. She explains that the reason behind this is that robots cannot judge you and a regular person who is afraid of being shunned and not having friends would encounter any problems with a system, which simply has simple conversation with you and who would essentially be unable to deeply understand what it is that you’re saying to them and keep it in their memory.
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Omer Ozbek
1/28/2014 08:05:24 am
I agree with you especially with the evolution and language part. But how much are we really losing the ability to talk to each other? Like it or not you come to school and/or work and talk to people, communicate and have conversations. So doesn't that type of interaction count as ability to speak to people? Even though people go to work/school I agree to the fact that we have lost the ability to talk to each other. We can even see this on social occasions where people are on their phones. Do you think that this will change and if it does what will affect it? Slate. com says that Facebook will lose 80% of its users in the near future. Do you think this will help or hinder our ability to talk to people face to face?
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Mr Esmail
2/6/2014 06:19:23 am
In response to: " I find it a bit ironic, however, that in order to have a proper conversation and a proper debate on a topic such as the one presented in the video, we have to go online and type our responses with computers in hand instead of being able to do this face to face. Most of us are condemning technology while using it."
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Omer Ozbek
1/28/2014 07:51:07 am
I believe that social media can help us socialise and communicate with others, but what does it mean to socialise? With the large grow and popularity of social media the term 'to socialise' has figuratively changed. According to the Oxford English Dictionary the term 'socialise' is defined as "to mix socially with others". Some people might argue that people who are on Facebook, Google+, etc. are in fact socialising. Those people can say that they are socialising because they are in a group chat talking to people. It is like responding 'I am' to when your mother tells you to go outside and talk to people instead of sitting in front of the computer all day. People start thinking of going out and talking with your friends as a burden when you can stay home and do the same thing, without even wearing pants. I personally have made up excuses so I do not have to go out and just stay in. This has even continued to the state where young adults do not move out of their parents home. They go to a college near home and even when they finish they stay at their home. according to the Forbes magazine, millions of american young adults choose to stay at their parents instead of finding a new home for themselves. The U.S Census Bureau realeased a statement saying that the amount of 25-34 year olds who still live with their parents increased largely from 2005. And coincidentally after 2005 social networking started to grow popular. Now day 25-34 year old might think why do I need to buy an apartment? I get to talk to my friends on Facebook, see them on Skype, answer their questions on Ask.fm, and they know where to find me on Foursquare. People can stay home and do all of that and not even go out. But, this not so surprisingly people start to get addicted their electronics and computers. Always looking down on their phones or typing on their computers. I believe it is evident that social media is making us lazier. But its not our fault either. The aim of social media was to make it just like the real world so you do not have to see your friends again. Well since its just like the real world why dont just turn off your computer and go outside to talk to people. Because it involves going outside. Its like a circle. All my friends are online i'll just stay home and chat with them. All my friends are out so im going to go out. This brings us to the subject of friends. People do what their friends do because they want to do it with them or not be alone. When your friends are switching to Facebook from MySpace you go with and your friends go with you. Before you know it everyone left MySpace. Now the same is thing is possibly happening to Facebook The Guardian says that Facebook lost 4% of their users last month and Facebook lot 9% of their UK users. I personally do use social media I go Facebook probably more than I think I do. I love watching YouTube videos. I think do not use Facebook too much or too rarely. But, it would not hurt if I used less. Weirdly enough my mom has more Facebook friends, she uses it more and helped me set up my account. They dont have any opinion or restriction. I think social media is making us lazier because now there is no reason to leave your room. But we are not losing the ability to socialise because we do it everyday at school or work.
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valentina
1/28/2014 09:16:12 am
I agree with professor Sherry Turkle, technology is effecting our personal lives. Social media can be a way of communicating with friends and family quicker, but it can also be away of hiding people from society. Everything we use now a days has a screen on it.
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Kelani Mueller
1/28/2014 09:51:35 am
This is a very valid point, especially what professor Sherry Turkle mentioned, about technology affecting our lives. It is an excellent idea to state the pros and cons of social media, so good job on your part. Going back to the aspect of "social media and electronic devices taking over our lives", "What would you say your thoughts are about our fixation with social media? What do you use it for, why do you use it, how often do you use it? Do you use it too much or too little? Do you approach your 'friends' differently using social media? How do your parents approach social media with you, do they restrict you in any way, why might they set boundaries? Is social media making us lazy, are we losing our ability to interact with each other personally?"
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Rahmon Chapoteau
1/28/2014 11:55:45 am
After watching this video, I agree with Prof. Turkle about how social media has the capability of taking over our lives (or it may have already done that). This is a very pragmatic matter, for it may have a major good effect, or a major bad effect depending on how- and for how long- we use social media in our lives. I also agree with her about how we will face many futures- both good and bad- throughout the use of social media. In my opinion, technology and social media are ok to an extent, just like most- if not everything- in this world.
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maho Kanno
1/28/2014 04:12:59 pm
I totally agree with you claiming that there are good and bad effects of technology. I strongly agree with the fact that social network services can be useful to critically minded people because I don't think absolutely all the people in the world is overloaded with technology. I also agree with the downside of the technology because we can relate to ourselves -some people use profane languages that are quite harsh.
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Leah
1/29/2014 12:22:09 am
Rahmon, I agree with you to an extent. I believe that social media can be used very easily to communicate with others across the planet. This is generally a very good thing. People do, of course, use social media for their own immoral purposes. It is easier to lie and spread propaganda over the media and this can create problems. However, is it really the media that is the cause of this or is it just in the nature of humans to be deceiving and abusive of such things? I think that what Turkle is really trying to say is that a great part of the population is using the social media as an escape from reality. As you said, it enables them to be someone else and enter a new environment when stuck in difficult situations.
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Alpay Birdinc
1/29/2014 12:55:45 pm
Rahmon, i completely agree with everything you said. Just like everything ,Technology is good to a certain extent. We could have a good or bad future depending on what we do about this problem, unfortunately i do not see a good outcome for the worlds technology issue. People are just too addicted to their phones, the problem is only getting worse. Yes, as far as your point about the advantageous uses of social media, yes i agree it can help people out. Face to face talking is very important as well. Social media does allow people to express themselves but, as you have said it is not always good expressing that comes out of social media.
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Filippos Geragidis
1/28/2014 01:46:35 pm
Social Media, whether we want to admit it or not, is slowly becoming a great deal of our daily communication process and is achieving a quite solid place in the evolution of the internet, as they affect almost every potential trend or attitude against certain issues, including the spread of news. I most certainly do agree with Prof. Turkle, in saying that it technology has long-term for potential improvement in many different and unique from one another sectors. However, such a change would not only demand feedback and effort from the other side, too (the consumers' side), if not JUST from the consumers. Many changes concerning internet issues have been solved by the users themselves, as the big industries are so blinded by their interests in making profit out of those websites, that they are either incapable or unwilling to produce any different than what most users demand, which is constantly changing, however it does so along with the moves those particular big industries make. Therefore, this proves my point that moves are not only decided by the brands, but from the users, too.
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Filippos Geragidis
1/28/2014 02:14:53 pm
* "... about living in Istanbul, which she was very excited about. ..."
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Leah Soeiro
1/28/2014 02:55:47 pm
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Stanislaus Messner
1/28/2014 03:00:26 pm
After watching the video of Sherry Turkle, we all roughly know what it’s about. It is about digital technology and its impacts on our lives. How it is overtaking our lives. She points out the dangers of digital technology, especially on children. Sherry Turkle said, they grow up with this technology, which cannot tolerate solitude, conversations, because constant quick connection is simpler, and I totally agree with her points. When I am travelling every morning with the bus to school, I see almost all of the children playing, watching or doing anything else on their mobile devices. Children get lazy as well as adults and instead of starting a conversation with the classmate next from each other; one is dealing with its mobile device.
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Maho Kanno
1/28/2014 04:07:20 pm
Watching the video of Sherry Turkle talking about how the excessive use of technology is affecting our lives, I, too, feel that technology is quite overloading in our lives. I agree with Turkle that we are definitely using it too much, but it is also true that it potentially is helping the relationship in some cases.
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Kelani Mueller
1/29/2014 12:34:06 am
Maho, you make some excellent points, especially with the statistics. Should we be questioning the amount of time that people are spending on these social media websites. Are we more prone to "health problems, back aching, depression, and anxiety?. You also make a valid point that "technology is only limited to this generation", and that "people need electronic devices for business purposes".
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Iman Mirza
1/29/2014 12:51:48 am
The debate about whether, or to what extent technology is influencing our lives is constantly going on. Constantly new research is being discovered about the effects of technology, and it is fair to say that most of this research would prove that technology has a negative effect on our lives.
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Olivia Lal Alatan
1/29/2014 02:08:33 pm
Hi Iman, I really enjoyed reading what you thought of Sherry Turkles presentation, and i really liked how you ended your point "Is it normal in this day and age that little children, no more than 7 years old, find it easier to play games on an iPad/any other form of technology, than they do to hold a simple conversation? I do feel that" I agree with this statement. It is shocking how many times I see even less than 7 year olds playing with an iphone/ipad basically a device, and on one hand I dont approve of this because it is too young of an age to be using such devices. You can see how negatively it has effected such a late generation, and we thought our generation was bad. However, I also think that it is important for these children to be learning how to use these devices at an early age because it encourages them to learn more and allows them to be engaged a little bit more.
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Chris Andre
1/29/2014 02:20:45 am
First, let me say what a pleasure it is to read so many thoughtful responses. As a class you respect for Dr. Turkle's presentation and one another's ideas allows for the disagreement and personal views to shine through. In blog posts and threads, often the style of writing can overshadow ideas and opinions. That is not the case here. Well Done! Could you consciously change your means of communication for different types of interactions? Could Kindness Week provide an opportunity to emphasize the face-to-face communication? Is it important to society or to you personally?
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Mayra Eren
1/29/2014 03:42:24 am
Professor Sherry Turkle conveys social media as being a problem and nothing else. I can somewhat agree with this statement, but it is also impossible to forget all of the great benefits social media has brought into our everyday lives. Teenagers, children, or even adults tend to check at least one social media sight everyday. Different people enjoy going on different sights. Some people say Facebook is the best medium to share everything and find out about other peoples' lives, while others use twitter to read and express their emotions, and some prefer applications such as Instagram which barely require any brain stimulation and are only used to look at photographs. Some of the applications that people are using could be said to be extremely useful, meanwhile others could be useless. This is all only a matter of opinion and perspective. In January of 2013 more than five million photographs were uploaded onto Instagram everyday (4 Ways Instagram Has Redefined Teen Culture). When numbers grow this much I think that the situation starts to get worrying. The problem with our generation is not the technology at hand, but how we use it. People are unable to control themselves from going onto their phones every time they are left in an unpleasant situation. If you see someone sitting at a restaurant alone nowadays they will just be staring into their phone or electronic device to not look lonely. What is worse is when group of people are all sitting at a table together, and each and every one of them is on their phone messaging other people. If the people were not going to talk to each other why did they bother to meet in the first place? They could have just organised a group Skype call. Of course next to the disadvantages of technology, there are also many advantages. It is an amazing privilege to be able to call someone who lives halfway around the world, and talk to them while seeing them, or to be able to know what is going on with another one of your friends you have not seen in such a long time. In my opinion the technology that we have nowadays is great and enables us to do many thing we otherwise would not be able to do. The only problem is that people need to learn how to be able to control their use of electronics so that it does not interfere too much in their everyday lives.
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Mayra Eren
1/29/2014 03:42:30 am
Professor Sherry Turkle conveys social media as being a problem and nothing else. I can somewhat agree with this statement, but it is also impossible to forget all of the great benefits social media has brought into our everyday lives. Teenagers, children, or even adults tend to check at least one social media sight everyday. Different people enjoy going on different sights. Some people say Facebook is the best medium to share everything and find out about other peoples' lives, while others use twitter to read and express their emotions, and some prefer applications such as Instagram which barely require any brain stimulation and are only used to look at photographs. Some of the applications that people are using could be said to be extremely useful, meanwhile others could be useless. This is all only a matter of opinion and perspective. In January of 2013 more than five million photographs were uploaded onto Instagram everyday (4 Ways Instagram Has Redefined Teen Culture). When numbers grow this much I think that the situation starts to get worrying. The problem with our generation is not the technology at hand, but how we use it. People are unable to control themselves from going onto their phones every time they are left in an unpleasant situation. If you see someone sitting at a restaurant alone nowadays they will just be staring into their phone or electronic device to not look lonely. What is worse is when group of people are all sitting at a table together, and each and every one of them is on their phone messaging other people. If the people were not going to talk to each other why did they bother to meet in the first place? They could have just organised a group Skype call. Of course next to the disadvantages of technology, there are also many advantages. It is an amazing privilege to be able to call someone who lives halfway around the world, and talk to them while seeing them, or to be able to know what is going on with another one of your friends you have not seen in such a long time. In my opinion the technology that we have nowadays is great and enables us to do many thing we otherwise would not be able to do. The only problem is that people need to learn how to be able to control their use of electronics so that it does not interfere too much in their everyday lives.
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Mayra Eren
1/29/2014 03:42:37 am
Professor Sherry Turkle conveys social media as being a problem and nothing else. I can somewhat agree with this statement, but it is also impossible to forget all of the great benefits social media has brought into our everyday lives. Teenagers, children, or even adults tend to check at least one social media sight everyday. Different people enjoy going on different sights. Some people say Facebook is the best medium to share everything and find out about other peoples' lives, while others use twitter to read and express their emotions, and some prefer applications such as Instagram which barely require any brain stimulation and are only used to look at photographs. Some of the applications that people are using could be said to be extremely useful, meanwhile others could be useless. This is all only a matter of opinion and perspective. In January of 2013 more than five million photographs were uploaded onto Instagram everyday (4 Ways Instagram Has Redefined Teen Culture). When numbers grow this much I think that the situation starts to get worrying. The problem with our generation is not the technology at hand, but how we use it. People are unable to control themselves from going onto their phones every time they are left in an unpleasant situation. If you see someone sitting at a restaurant alone nowadays they will just be staring into their phone or electronic device to not look lonely. What is worse is when group of people are all sitting at a table together, and each and every one of them is on their phone messaging other people. If the people were not going to talk to each other why did they bother to meet in the first place? They could have just organised a group Skype call. Of course next to the disadvantages of technology, there are also many advantages. It is an amazing privilege to be able to call someone who lives halfway around the world, and talk to them while seeing them, or to be able to know what is going on with another one of your friends you have not seen in such a long time. In my opinion the technology that we have nowadays is great and enables us to do many thing we otherwise would not be able to do. The only problem is that people need to learn how to be able to control their use of electronics so that it does not interfere too much in their everyday lives.
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Hiroki Endo
1/29/2014 06:00:08 am
I'm agree this thing. We have lost the skill to interact with each other face-to-face, and our society is too tied up to electronic devices. However now we doesn't do it by computer and something.
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Silvio Bellini
1/29/2014 06:20:52 am
Recently social media has a really strong and important impact on humans. The way we look at it is very useful and necessarily. I don't really agree with Sherry Turkle's opinion in this case. She is looking to this situation from a very basic perspective. It is very much obvious that social media websites are something that almost all of the teens and adults looks everyday that's why i think this situation is never going to be fixed even its going to get worse. People are assuming that there are going to be flying cars on the earth in future, if we are thinking to do this why don't we also add the fact the opinions about people from all over the world into this. It's normal to see on twitter that people share everything what they do. Thats why briefly i think its going to be even worse and more complicated that social media's power will be stronger in our daily lives.
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Filippos Geragidis
1/29/2014 06:26:43 am
I have to say that I do not agree with some of your points, such as that there is no progress made in the technological field ("new inventions", in your own words), because everyone is on social media constantly and cannot work. This is a very general statement, which you do not really have the experience, therefore the right to make. Although various problems are created by social media, not everyone has an addiction which causes them to withdraw from their jobs, therefore to not make any progress at all.
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Parmida Masrour
1/29/2014 09:25:01 am
I personally think that social media has had a lot of impact on our lives. Some of course negative but in my opinion most of them are positive. The 21st century people are so used to having Internet and spending their time on the laptop that some of the activities that used to exist has faded. For example calling someone to find out how they are doing with their lives. Now days no one does that instead people text, which to me isn’t such a positive point. It just makes us realize how much of our lives we are spending on the unrealistic life that we have created online. So the right thing to do would be to stop spending our lives on our smartphones and computers and start living life. I am not saying that we should put them away forever, because technology will grow no matter how much we are against it.
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Olivia Lal Alatan
1/29/2014 12:48:14 pm
Hi Parmida, I found it interesting when you referred to when Sherry Turkle said “when we are stuck in a stop sign we instantly take out our phones just so we wouldn’t feel lonely” not many people discussed this statement. I agree that when many people are somewhere alone, or waiting for something they refer to their cellphones or any other device as a "safety" just so they dont feel alone. I agree with you when you say that "it is sad but if you think about it for a second you will instantly see that we have forgotten how to communicate in really life." many people now a days have forgotten how to communicate with each other and socialize, most people even afraid to socialize because using technology is interfering.
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Can Batuk
1/29/2014 11:19:03 am
What Professor Sherry Turkle has to say about Social Media is that it is practically saying that electronics such as phone computers with things such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram Etc. Are taking over our lives, I for myself can relate to this because I do use a lot of my time looking at a screen more importantly looking at whats on the screen which 90 percent of the time is usually sites such as Facebook or Instagram and it is very time consuming. It was a test in the Huffington post that 58 percent of Americans look at their smart phones every hour (Huffington post, Americans addicted to checking smartphones), there are some people that look every half hour or 10 minutes, it may sound absurd but it is true, this is very scary to see that so many people (15695000) look at their phone every hour or so, this would mean that social media is taking over our lives. I don't want to sound weird but this could also in the future be used as a form of hypnosis. What I think should be a good experiment is taking away the phones of 25 test subjects, not let them go near a phone or computer for 5 days and see what their reaction to this would be, would they ask for their phone back? or will they just be ok with it? there are some people who in a situation when a parent takes their phone they ask for it back immediately, could be a sign that they are hiding something or they NEED their phone, thus would show how some people are addicted to their phones or what is on them being social media.
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Olivia Lal Alatan
1/29/2014 12:32:35 pm
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Olivia Lal Alatan
1/29/2014 01:50:37 pm
"Social Networking Statistics." Statistic Brain RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. Jan. 2014. <http://www.statisticbrain.com/social-networking-statistics>.
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Olivia Lal Alatan
1/29/2014 01:50:43 pm
"Social Networking Statistics." Statistic Brain RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. Jan. 2014. <http://www.statisticbrain.com/social-networking-statistics>.
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Olivia Lal Alatan
1/29/2014 01:54:03 pm
"Technology's Influence on Society." : April 2009. N.p., n.d. Web. Jan. 2014. <http://ccho89.blogspot.com.tr/2009_04_01_archive.html>.
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1/29/2014 12:33:54 pm
Are social media and electronic devices taking over our lives?
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Work cited
1/29/2014 12:35:55 pm
(Sources: Turkle, Sherry. "Sherry Turkle: Tackling Technology Overload." BBC. N.p., 4 July 2012. Web. 26 Jan. 2014. <http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120703-tackling-technology-overload>.)
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Irmak Sagmanli
1/29/2014 12:36:58 pm
My thoughts about Professor Sherry Turkl’s fixation with social media are that I agree with her because when she is talking about how social media has changed people, it is very true. Most people nowadays spend their lives on social media. I disagree with how she said that it could be fixed by decreasing the amount of time used on social media. It will not be easy for the people. People have many different opinions on social media, some are positive about it; some are very negative about it. This opinion is depending on the person and his\or her surroundings. The people who have positive thoughts about social media are the people who say it is a great way to keep you updated and connected to your friends, and family around the world. These are the people who need to be easily connected to their friends or family around the world. They are able to follow what they are doing even if the other person is on the other side of the world. As said in the video, some people say that it is bad to the person’s relationships with friends and family, work performance, and many more. Social media is used to contact, keep updated, and connected to the people in the world by technology. I feel that social media has a good impact when it is not used as much and I think that social media has a bad impact on people when it is overly used, such as how much people use it today. I also do think that people approach each other differently because they are less informed when they are chatting to someone over any social media site while talking to someone face to face. With kids and teens there is a lot of cyber-bullying going on and people need to be able to easily prevent it. There is a lot of cyber- bullying going on with kids and teens because most of the fights they get in and the insults they tell each other happen online rather than in their real life. People say really rude things to each other online not realizing the damage they have done and hurt the other person. When they are insulting or fighting with each other online it makes it easier for them to say more ruder and harsher insults to each other before they are comfortable in front of the computer on social media sites. They would not be able to do the same thing in front of the actual person face to face. Then there are the other people who insult people as anonymous or fake accounts. I think social media is making people lazier because they have found an easier way on how to connect and contact each other over social media also staying connected to the world.
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Irmak Sagmanli
1/29/2014 12:44:20 pm
Turkle, Sherry. "Sherry Turkle: Tackling Technology Overload." BBC. N.p., 4 July 2012. Web. Jan. 2014. <http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120703-tackling-technology-overload>
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Defne Cayirlioglu
1/29/2014 12:46:39 pm
I think that the social media has a huge impact in our lives right now. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram… all these and even more social media sites are now defining our lives. People get judged everyday because of what they post on their Facebook status. I always think that my generation is the thin line between being addicted to technology and having fun, hanging out with friends and actually communicating by our own selves.
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Defne Cayirlioglu
1/30/2014 06:22:47 am
Source: Turkle, Sherry. "Sherry Turkle: Tackling Technology Overload." BBC. N.p., 4 July 2012. Web. Jan. 2014. <http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120703-tackling-technology-overload>
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Caroline Rou
1/29/2014 12:48:47 pm
Are social media and electronic devices taking over our lives?
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Yeone Seo
1/29/2014 01:01:23 pm
I agree with your ideas. I can't see any people who doesn't have cellphone. If we use it too much it could harm us
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Yeone Seo
1/29/2014 01:04:50 pm
We have to control ourselves try to spend time with a real friends, try to communicate with people face to face. Everyone looks like they are living in their own world.
Yeone Seo
1/29/2014 12:57:36 pm
I perfectly agreed with Sherry Turkle after I saw the video. Technology is developing everyday, harder and faster than before. Our generation is technology already includes our life, we live with technology and social media. Our next generation will be technology is the life. They couldn't be able to sleep, eat or spend time without technology. Technology and social media gives lots of useful information, it also includes entertainment. I can tell almost every entertainment we're enjoying is related to technology. For example, facebook, game, comic cartoons, tumblr or instagram. This is called social media. Facebook active users is increasing every year. We use them all day, all night, we start the day with them, end the day with them. They are one of the reasons why we're living. But there are lots of serious problems following social media.
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Sebastian Eigenmann
1/29/2014 02:23:11 pm
Professor Sherry Turkle did a great job getting the message over that Technology is taking over our life's. I need to agree with her and I think that it is taking over our life's pretty fast. Im not the only one supporting Professor Sherry Turkle, for example. Tim Lott is a british author and he says the same, he says that Technology is taking over our daily lives. He wrote an article before about "Technology ate my marriage", which was about since the introduction of the Internet, mobile phones and PC, Tim Lott and his wife spent less and less time in face-to-face contact.
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Jiyoung Shin
1/30/2014 12:39:45 am
About the statement that Professor Sherry Turkl’s speech, she thought the social media could change people and their life. In fact, that’s certainly right. But in my opinion, it’s not really bad, because it has lots of advantage too. I’ll explain in detail below.
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serra ozarslan
1/30/2014 11:35:55 am
Shery Turkle makes some good points in her video.
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Jules Joris
1/31/2014 03:42:38 am
Today the socials medias are a part of u, everybody can every time check his emails, his Facebook messages and find something to do on Internet. In the video the Ms. Turkle say it’s a problem; that the socials websites are bad for us . For the growing of children who are to much on their computers, for the relationships which aren’t the same with internet or in real life and the problems of dependence. Because now that become a dependence of the Internet. I am not sure if it’s a real problem or not but I know one thing, that will growing and never stop. The technologies are non stop taking importance in our life. I don’t know if I am really concerning, of curse I often go on the socials websites, on YouTube or on Facebook but I stay on this as the teenagers of this time .My friends do the same; it’s usual . If we trust the woman of the video It’s dangerous for people that become usually to do this. My parents don’t think that I think. As all of the parents they don’t like when I am to much on my computer but it isn’t a addiction so I can go on this without restrictions. But an other question is are the socials websites make us different? It’s difficult to answer because this question is bringing others very bigger. Are the technologies change our life? Now I can just say; of curse . The technologies change us, our comportments, our way to think and others things. It’s scientifically proved that the teenagers become more impatient and lazier with the Internet. But there isn’t just bad things because that change us too I good things. Our way to think with other people , our speed of reflexing ,our mind think now at grand ladder … Is it bad? I don’t think. I think that now we have to learn to live with the technologies without excess.
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Adam Fadul
1/31/2014 05:46:59 am
After listening to what Professor Sherry Turkle had to say I feel as though social media and electronic devices have indeed taken over our lives however at the same time I do not feel that it has been a bad thing, while some may argue that there is a lack of social skills that the children of this generation I do not feel that this is true. Even though people spend a considerable amount of time on social media on mobile devices, it is not as if people do not spend any time together in real life. I do not feel that there is any replacement for real life human contact. Social media offers a very quick way to convey information without being in the same room as someone else, and you are able to share information. At the same time nothing can compare to real human contact. I do not see social media as a better alternative, but rather as a method of communicating when there is no other alternative. Not all people feel the same way as I do and of course some people will go overboard with social media, they are entitled to doing that.
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Ethan Holmer
1/31/2014 05:47:30 am
I agree with Sherry Turkle, in the fact that technology is taking over people's lives. Everyday, I see people on they're phones. Constantly I see people texting or using apps, in the hallways, on the couches, and even during class. According to ikeepsafe.com, the average kid/teen from ages 8-18 spends 44.5 hours a week on technology/media. Also, According to Dr. Kimberly Young, kids who spend a lot of time online sacrifices hours of sleep to say online, prefer to spend time online the friends and family. Technology has taken over the lives of many children. According to Mr. Davis, more then 50% of the kid’s grades 7-10 overly technology and the media such as, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Snap chat, YouTube, etc. Even though I agree with her, I believe she is a hypocrite because when she was featured on wire magazine and in her pep talk she said how great the technology was and how it would be so great for the world’s technology and how it would also help out a lot of other things in general. But, overall I do agree that technology is taking over people lives and it must be rationed.
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James Symes
1/31/2014 06:27:56 am
We have a huge fixation on the Internet and social media these days. With this fixation people start to become unsocial in the real world and lost contact. I play many, many games for my free time. I know how to navigate and use the Internet perfectly because I have grown up with it and use it every day. I personally don’t use a lot of social media because I do not like it. My parents make social media a huge factor in their lives whilst it’s a much smaller factor in mine. My parents set no boundaries for me they trust me and believe that I am going to be ok on the computer. Social media is making us physically lazy because we just sit around and move our fingers continuously thinking about things online. But our brain still functions properly because we think of the images we are reading.
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Kenny Kobayashi
1/31/2014 06:50:48 am
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2/7/2014 07:45:49 am
Over the course of merely decades, social networking has dominated a bulk of the daily lives of humans. At this point in time, one would be considered abnormal if they didn’t feel an inherent need to connect and expand their connections. In the early 19th century, due to economic constraints and geographical distances, connection ties formed among people were fairly limited. But times have changed, and so have the knowledge encompassed by humankind. In due course, technology has evolved drastically and gone from an education tool to that of a way of daily life. In this disputably “reality television culture” of the contemporary day, it seems as though individuals seek more entertainment from another individual’s life than ever before. Now to this date, social networking sites such as online communities offer their members and users with the ability to become involved or even consumed by the shared lives of others around them. Social networking sites and communities have proven that they are capable of offering many beneficial facets in the world of education and social communication, though I piquantly believe that the modern society has become fanatical with this new virtual world that puts forth no limits. Even positive things befit the adverse when used in excess, and pertaining to that, online communities are abused and many individuals are stirred and consumed by the world that these sites have to offer.
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