Digital Demands

Critique on Digital Demands Sherry Turkle describes how we are constantly connected to our phones, the internet, and also our computers. She describes how it is getting worse with all the people as we cannot enjoy the simple, pleasuring tasks that we used to enjoy before. When reading her interview it is very easy to visualize how things have changed. Turkle, who has worked at MIT for 30 years, says that students have changed over the 25 years of having technology and that it is not the same as before. Digital Demands by Sherry Turkle succeeds at explaining being connected to technology too much because she convincingly makes the case only through the illusion of companionship, that technology sets us short of what we want, multitasking on the computer makes things worse, and that we constantly have to stay connected to technology. Technology give us the illusion that we are attached to something without really being attached and without actually having the real friendship there. As Turkle explains in Digital Demands, “There’s this sense that you can have the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship” (Turkle). We always want someone to be with us or to be there for us and our phone is our source of feeling that. If someone was in a bad situation our phone is the first thing we turn to. We would call someone close to us and feel the comfort to make us feel better for that second then just go back to being how it used to. “The real demands of friendship, of intimacy, are complicated” says Turkle. It seems like no one knows how to have a friendship without ‘talking’ on facebook or ‘tweeting’ each other. Our generation is constantly going on social networks to meet new people. Using the computer all the time will set us short because technology is making it easier for us to actually do the complicated things in life. Turkles explains that reading has brought us “tremendous riches” and have been “cherished” for a long time. Up until now no one