Alone Together By Sherry Turgle Summary

Alone Together Book Summary
Alone together by Sherry Turkle, a MIT technology and society specialist, explains her negative take on the growing technological realm of society, and the drastic changes in social norms. She proceeds to back up her theories with real life observations and quotations from people through interviews and tests which she’s conducted in favor of learning information about their personal experiences with technology. Turkle offers different examples of the negative impacts technologies seem to have on an individual’s life. Among these various examples of technology Turkle places a huge emphasis on social media and texting that plagues child and adulthood.
Each chapter focuses on a different type of robot or technology as she recites people’s firsthand accounts on the impact of texting and social media in society. It appears that most if not all of these accounts seem to evoke a negative feeling towards texting and social media because of the effects these tools of communication have on a person. The idea of Turkle’s that texting and social media has such an impact of negativity on a person and the people they involve themselves with holds much truth because of the way
With these communication tools people can now think clearly about what they want to say before they say it. They can revise a certain sentence that they would have normally said in a face-to-face interaction if they find it unfit for their liking. People can completely control the dynamics of any and every conversation they have through texting and social