How Does Technology Affect Our Relationships

Once upon a time, people had real-life conversations and real relationships. These days we either talk by texting, e-mails, or social media and we are even using the internet to find lovers. People are forgetting how to talk and have sincere relationships because technology is shaping how we falsely feel about others and ourselves. After reading Sherry Turkle’s book, Alone Together, I have become more aware of people and myself always being connected. Honestly, it frightens me. How would people behave without their cell phones or social media? Literally insane. People do not know how to function around other people unless they are connected to something. Why are we letting ourselves and our relationships be controlled by social media and our phones? People need to connect more with other people rather than being glued to the screens of their cell phones. Texting and social media are crumbling relationships, intimate and friendly, every day, yet it is letting us find love. We need to detox ourselves from technology to be able to have legitimate, caring relationships before it is too late and we cannot escape technology’s control. Although some use the Internet and social media to find love, look at what it can stir up and destroy, technology is not the answer for love.
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Like Stolz said people have lost their introspection. She did a week-long “digital detox”. During her detox she started having real conversations with her friends and reflected on herself. People need to do some soul-searching away from technology, take a breather. When we step away from technology we notice what is actually happening around us. I walked from one building to another and there was a group of eight people, six of them were either texting, listening to music, and even both. It was surprising but at the same time it