Sherry Turkles
Michelle Cervantes
Cecile Harding
English 5A (TTH 8AM)
7 September 2010
Technology and the young When children hit their adolescent years, most of them are given cellular phones by their parents. Parents may think that by providing their young adolescent with a cellular phone it is a form of keeping touch with them at all times. Even though I do not believe this is very responsible of the parents to do because adolescents do not get to build up a sense of self awareness in the dangerous world around them; they seem to lack their sense of direction since the android cellular phones now in days give you the answers to practically everything. From searching the web to always communicating through a text; cellular phones have tethered the adolescents themselves including the people around them; it involves everyone. In the sections of Sherry Turkle’s essay Can You Hear Me Now, ‘The Tethered Adolescent’ one can connect to prove that society is losing itself through technology but it starts at a young age when given a cellular phone which then evolves into using technology in day to day life communicating through a text, via e-mail or through social networks. I will be explaining how the cellular phone gives “a price to pay in the development of autonomy” how Turkle explains and also how that ties in to how people communicate as they grow older. Adolescents today have it easy; mom and dad are there just a phone call, even a text away. They have lost the experience of looking at the world differently how it should be; to feel the independence and responsibilities of growing up, the first experience of real life on their own. Like Turkle says in this quote from ‘The Tethered Adolescents’. “There used to be a moment in life of an urban child, usually between the ages of 12 and 14, when there was a first time to navigate the alone. It was a right of passage that communicated. “You are on your own and responsible. If you feel frightened, you have to experience these
Cecile Harding
English 5A (TTH 8AM)
7 September 2010
Technology and the young When children hit their adolescent years, most of them are given cellular phones by their parents. Parents may think that by providing their young adolescent with a cellular phone it is a form of keeping touch with them at all times. Even though I do not believe this is very responsible of the parents to do because adolescents do not get to build up a sense of self awareness in the dangerous world around them; they seem to lack their sense of direction since the android cellular phones now in days give you the answers to practically everything. From searching the web to always communicating through a text; cellular phones have tethered the adolescents themselves including the people around them; it involves everyone. In the sections of Sherry Turkle’s essay Can You Hear Me Now, ‘The Tethered Adolescent’ one can connect to prove that society is losing itself through technology but it starts at a young age when given a cellular phone which then evolves into using technology in day to day life communicating through a text, via e-mail or through social networks. I will be explaining how the cellular phone gives “a price to pay in the development of autonomy” how Turkle explains and also how that ties in to how people communicate as they grow older. Adolescents today have it easy; mom and dad are there just a phone call, even a text away. They have lost the experience of looking at the world differently how it should be; to feel the independence and responsibilities of growing up, the first experience of real life on their own. Like Turkle says in this quote from ‘The Tethered Adolescents’. “There used to be a moment in life of an urban child, usually between the ages of 12 and 14, when there was a first time to navigate the alone. It was a right of passage that communicated. “You are on your own and responsible. If you feel frightened, you have to experience these