Sherry Turkle, who is a professor at MIT in the science, technology, and society programs, alludes to such a fault in her essay entitled “No Need To Call,” in which she confronts the negative impact texting has on culture and highlights the common opinion that texting is preferential to phone calls. Turkle writes: “At the screen, you have a chance to write yourself into the person you want to be and to imagine others as you wish them to be, constructing them for your purposes” (374). There is a certain amount of authenticity that is required of people when they are speaking over the phone, and even more so in person. For some, texting exempts them, and therefore desensitizes them to such authenticity. This option of putting up a façade surely would not benefit
Sherry Turkle, who is a professor at MIT in the science, technology, and society programs, alludes to such a fault in her essay entitled “No Need To Call,” in which she confronts the negative impact texting has on culture and highlights the common opinion that texting is preferential to phone calls. Turkle writes: “At the screen, you have a chance to write yourself into the person you want to be and to imagine others as you wish them to be, constructing them for your purposes” (374). There is a certain amount of authenticity that is required of people when they are speaking over the phone, and even more so in person. For some, texting exempts them, and therefore desensitizes them to such authenticity. This option of putting up a façade surely would not benefit