Let’s hang out... but not hang out ok?
I love hanging out with my friends. But what Ive noticed at times when we do hang out everyone is on their phones. We can laugh about things and show each other memes that make us laugh. But is it enough? Is it enough to learn from each other our likes and dislikes? That is a huge negative aspect of technology today. Everyone has a phone and no one knows how to hang out with each other anymore because we are always on them. The worst part about this is you can carry a conversation with someone over social media and they will be RIGHT NEXT TO YOU! We consume much of our time with online social media, that I feel sometimes we forget to be social face to face. It is an important factor to be able to have meaningful conversations. In the early stages of childhood it is important for babies to learn how to communicate their feelings and emotions through play with others. It creates the ability to know what they want need and feel. So why are we reverting what we’ve learned through having a phone that provides us a way to social communicate emotionless?
If we get used to this way of communications we will tend to hide or be more comfortable introverted away from having a real conversation with people. We will forget to know what it is like to have those real emotional conversations with someone. Turkle says “have we lost our confidence to confide in others?” I believe this is true. I believe we hide from meeting other people because technology keeps us from gaining intimacy with people we don’t know. We take comfort in our circle and in the process you’ll be missing out on some great people. How is it that we are told to have a blog for class and I see so many people in our class have more blog comment than mine? It is because connection leads to isolation. It is easier to talk with people we know with our technology than to stretch out of our comfort zone and talk with those we don’t. Revealing ourselves to others is scary and I believe our technology has caused these habits of not being able to communicate well.
If we get used to this way of communications we will tend to hide or be more comfortable introverted away from having a real conversation with people. We will forget to know what it is like to have those real emotional conversations with someone. Turkle says “have we lost our confidence to confide in others?” I believe this is true. I believe we hide from meeting other people because technology keeps us from gaining intimacy with people we don’t know. We take comfort in our circle and in the process you’ll be missing out on some great people. How is it that we are told to have a blog for class and I see so many people in our class have more blog comment than mine? It is because connection leads to isolation. It is easier to talk with people we know with our technology than to stretch out of our comfort zone and talk with those we don’t. Revealing ourselves to others is scary and I believe our technology has caused these habits of not being able to communicate well.
I find it interesting that we will carry conversations over social media with people that we are next to. I feel that this in itself shows that technology is ruining our communication skills. I strongly agree with you that we will forget how to have real emotional conversations face to face, because through technology we don't have to show any to others!
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