Is The Web Driving Us Mad By Tony Dokol
Do we rather live in a very lonely place or choose to live in a solitude way. The “Tethered Self: Technology Reinvents Intimacy and Solitude” (2001), Sherry Turkle, a MIT professor argues that as we expect more from technology, we expect less from each other. The technology changes the way we view ourselves. Turkle claims that our technological devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication. We are more connected but alone, which in turn could have harmful effects on our relationships and our community. The technology interferes in our personal relationship, second the technology makes us isolate ourselves, and lastly, technology changes who we are. Turkle states the negative effects of technology that interferes
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On my experience, I do sometimes get upset when the web is loading so slow, and if I cannot download some music or movies as quick as possible. I get really impatient about it, the web bring us more and more impatient that we expect. If we can tolerate some delays on the web, we can be less affected on the delays. In the article “Is the Web Driving Us Mad”(2012) by Tony Dokoupil, illustrates “how the web affects our mental health” for example Internet, tweets, texts, emails and post can makes us depressed and lonely. Dokoupil believes that we allow technology to control our life and we forgetting how to manage our important things in life. For instance we use texts to talk to our family and friends while we can actually talk to them in person. We connect more to the internet than actual connecting to another human being. We rather choose to live in a virtual world to have new bodies, new friends, romances and home than to appreciate what we have in the real world. We get annoy when our mobile phones do not work or the internet is slow. We use to have more patient than we are now. Living with internet is great but we should not forget that internet is only temporary part of our life. The most important thing we should be more thankful for is our real friends, family and the people around us and not the people in social medias who don’t really care for you and they only cause drama in your life. Human connection is diminishing every minute, we spend time on the internet and our mobile devices. In the passage “Are Social Media Creating The Laziest Generation,” by Dean Obeidallah states that “Commenting about events on social media become our national religion, he says.” The quote is interesting because we are more interested on the events on Facebook, twitter and some other social media’s. While we are so focus on comments and some not so important news, we have not realize that the web is making us more
On my experience, I do sometimes get upset when the web is loading so slow, and if I cannot download some music or movies as quick as possible. I get really impatient about it, the web bring us more and more impatient that we expect. If we can tolerate some delays on the web, we can be less affected on the delays. In the article “Is the Web Driving Us Mad”(2012) by Tony Dokoupil, illustrates “how the web affects our mental health” for example Internet, tweets, texts, emails and post can makes us depressed and lonely. Dokoupil believes that we allow technology to control our life and we forgetting how to manage our important things in life. For instance we use texts to talk to our family and friends while we can actually talk to them in person. We connect more to the internet than actual connecting to another human being. We rather choose to live in a virtual world to have new bodies, new friends, romances and home than to appreciate what we have in the real world. We get annoy when our mobile phones do not work or the internet is slow. We use to have more patient than we are now. Living with internet is great but we should not forget that internet is only temporary part of our life. The most important thing we should be more thankful for is our real friends, family and the people around us and not the people in social medias who don’t really care for you and they only cause drama in your life. Human connection is diminishing every minute, we spend time on the internet and our mobile devices. In the passage “Are Social Media Creating The Laziest Generation,” by Dean Obeidallah states that “Commenting about events on social media become our national religion, he says.” The quote is interesting because we are more interested on the events on Facebook, twitter and some other social media’s. While we are so focus on comments and some not so important news, we have not realize that the web is making us more