Sherry Turrkle The Flight From Conversation Analysis

The article “The Flight From Conversation,” by Sherry Turkle, address problems that today’s society, a technological universe, rely too much on technology instead of connecting with real people. She makes a unique perspective when analyzing how we live in a modern technological world. From what she has studied, the technologies of mobile connection and surveying hundreds of different groups and ages of people, we can come up with a conclusion that many people today, whatever they are doing, they are almost always with their cell phone, whether it is checking emails, texting, playing video games, reading news, etc. Because we are living in a social ignorism world, her purpose of writing this article is to persuade the audiences to help promote what is called real conversation in our everyday lives. Although social ignorism is normal in today's society and is part of everybody’s lives, Turkle is still strongly
She is saying that by talking face-to-face with someone will helps us understand more about ourselves and others. Connecting with someone via social media will let one to know and get closer with the other, but it will not let one to completely understand each other. I am completely agree to her reason for promoting face-to-face conversation. To be able to have a better conversation, we need to put our feeling into our words that come off of our mouths, and those feeling needed trust. When talking to one another via device, I don’t think we can put our full feeling into those words. Another reason why we all need to help promote face-to-face conversation because, in second before last paragraph, Turkle describes what was happened at a cottage on Cape Cod where everyone was on their cell phone, and ignore each other and the beauty of nature. I think that to have the most enjoyable time somewhere with someone, we must all pay attention and observe our surrounding, and even to one another. Her reason is fair and