Alone Together Tururgle Analysis

Relationships with Technology Everyone has their own relationship with technology. After careful observation of my Hendrix community, self-reflection, and analysis of reading selections from Turkle’s Alone Together, I noticed some of the advantages of technology. It can help us make connections, stay connected, and escape. Even with these different advantages, we must realize the importance of not allowing technology to overpower our lives. If we allow ourselves to become engulfed in technology, we see the consequences in our relationships with other people and our surroundings. The SLTC on the Hendrix campus is a community space where students, prospective students, alumni, professors, workers, people of the Conway community come to study, have meetings, relax, socialize, eat at The Burrow, watch TV, or play games of pool, ping pong, or foosball. Each of these people have their own reasons for gathering in the SLTC, and each have their own unique relationship
In Alone Together Sherry Turkle demonstrates some of the negative effects technology has on society. She explains the current decline of human connection and interaction. Through technology and networking, people create and alter reality. Turkle argues that though social media websites and technology can enhance friendships and connections by it breaking the barrier of distance, this virtual world—the way we interact with others and the perception of the people we are interacting with—has become less authentic. Technology gives us the ability to build relationships based on what we think we desire. When we build profiles on social media, we can be the people we desire. We then also find hope in meeting people with compatible and desirable profiles. Which leaves us to wonder if technology can lead to having the relationships we think we desire, rather than real