Reaction Paper on “Flight from Conversation” by Sherry Turkle

By: Mikee C. Delos Santos

According Sherry Turkle “we live in a technological universe in which we are always
communicating and yet we have sacrificed conversations for mere connections.”
Technology can be a powerful tool for transforming learning. It can help affirm and
advance relationships between educators and students, reinvent our approaches to
learning and collaboration, shrink long-standing equity and accessibility gaps, and adapt
learning experiences to meet the needs of all learners.

In this generation, we most used technology or social media to connect to other

people. But we didn’t realize that face-to-face conversation unfolds slowly. Technology
let us present the self we want to be. Through technology, we can edit or delete all the
things we want in social media. The effect of this technology it not only shown in home
but also in school and office. According to Sherry Turkle, families sit together, texting and
reading e-mail. At work executive’s text during board meetings. We text during classes
and when were on dates. Nowadays, we rather communicate through social media that
communicate person because for us it’s more convenient and an easy way to connect to
other people. “We are drawn to technologies like instant connectivity that offers us the
illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship” she said. People in this
generation have the fear of conversation among adolescents. We think constant
connection will make us feel less lonely but it has the reverse effect. We didn’t think that
technology also can take advantage of our vulnerabilities because we expect more from
it that we do from people. “But technology has made by passing loneliness possible by
making equal the validation of a feeling and establishing that feeling” she said. The
expectation of people in technology and connectivity is people put their attention
whenever they want; they will always be heard and they will never be alone.

We are now slowly dependent on technologies and we never realize how it affect
our life. We always think, communicating or having conversation in social media is a good
rather than face-to-face conversation. But Sherry Turkle made me realize how technology
slowly occupying ourselves, how technology change who we are, and how technology
make us apart from the real world, from real people, and from our real self.