Together Sherry Turgle Analysis
Genuine Relationships: The Impact of Technology on Society in Sherry Turkle and Malcolm Gladwell Technology has a great impact on our authenticity of a relationship because many people have no concern for the person on the other end. When one has a face to face conversation with someone, body language and facial expressions show the person’s emotions.
One can represent love, hope, fear, or happiness in an eye to eye conversion, but in terms of texting one cannot show real emotions. In Sherry Turkle’s essay “Alone Together”, she talks about how robots are replacing human relationships and how this is decreasing legitimacy in relationships with one another. Authentic relationship meaning having a genuine interest or an indisputable history/experience …show more content…
In an authentic relationship, the members of the relationship have some connection or experience in which they have shared in the past. Turkle’s similar argument towards human relationships is represented when she states, “Authenticity, for me, follows from the ability to put oneself in the place of another, to relate to the other because of a shared story of human experiences…” (Turkle 267). Technology has a great impact on our authentic relationships as a result of many people lacking emotions when communicating while using modern forms of communication such as emailing, texting, or video chatting. People lack emotions when interacting using modern forms of communications because one cannot show how they feel over a text message or email. True feelings can only be expressed with face to face conversion that includes reading body language. Gladwell shares a similar viewpoint because he also believes that in order to humans to have “strong-ties”, they need to have past shared experience. Gladwell states, “The four would smuggle beer into the dorm and talk late into the night in Blair and McNeil’s room” (137). A bond can be created over simple things such as having a drink together or sitting in the same room together, but it must be something that is done face to face. Without past experience with other humans, one cannot build the level of trust and loyalty that is needed to in counter authentic conversions which will lead to genuine relationships. When a group or couple undergoes an activity together, for the most part, they will either realize that the people they are in contact with are actually people they have something in common with or have an unforced interest with. If one notices that they have a connection or interest in pursuing the relationship, this builds a relationship with genuine
One can represent love, hope, fear, or happiness in an eye to eye conversion, but in terms of texting one cannot show real emotions. In Sherry Turkle’s essay “Alone Together”, she talks about how robots are replacing human relationships and how this is decreasing legitimacy in relationships with one another. Authentic relationship meaning having a genuine interest or an indisputable history/experience …show more content…
In an authentic relationship, the members of the relationship have some connection or experience in which they have shared in the past. Turkle’s similar argument towards human relationships is represented when she states, “Authenticity, for me, follows from the ability to put oneself in the place of another, to relate to the other because of a shared story of human experiences…” (Turkle 267). Technology has a great impact on our authentic relationships as a result of many people lacking emotions when communicating while using modern forms of communication such as emailing, texting, or video chatting. People lack emotions when interacting using modern forms of communications because one cannot show how they feel over a text message or email. True feelings can only be expressed with face to face conversion that includes reading body language. Gladwell shares a similar viewpoint because he also believes that in order to humans to have “strong-ties”, they need to have past shared experience. Gladwell states, “The four would smuggle beer into the dorm and talk late into the night in Blair and McNeil’s room” (137). A bond can be created over simple things such as having a drink together or sitting in the same room together, but it must be something that is done face to face. Without past experience with other humans, one cannot build the level of trust and loyalty that is needed to in counter authentic conversions which will lead to genuine relationships. When a group or couple undergoes an activity together, for the most part, they will either realize that the people they are in contact with are actually people they have something in common with or have an unforced interest with. If one notices that they have a connection or interest in pursuing the relationship, this builds a relationship with genuine