How Does Social Media Affect Human Interaction?

Technology has changed all of us for the better or for the worse. Although our gadgets enable us to figure out what is going on in the Kardashian's life or what ridiculous tweet Donald Trump just tweeted, it is not a viable substitute, nothing is, for human interaction and conversation. Sherry Turkle has explored the disturbing future where all we need are A.I.'s to feel okay, to live. She explains that if we stop having face to face conversations our ability to feel empathy will be destroyed because texts and digital interaction can only convey so much. Texting erases all the tones and depth present in a face to face conversation and with the simple questions and even simpler responses they don't disclose anything anymore. Thus we've become
Turkle says that technology has only made us even lonliner and gave us a false sense of confidence. She says that the solution to loneliness is not constant connection, but learning to be alone. If you can't be alone all you'll feel is loneliness. Similarly, social media gives us a false sense of confidence because we are able to present ourselves as who we want to be. Digital communication allows us to edit and alter "and if we wish to, we can delete. Or retouch: the voice, the flesh, the face, the body. Not too much, not too little - just right" (Turkle, 2) which makes us more confident because we are satisfied with our digital selfs that we can hit up our crush or post something that we never had the courage to say aloud. Although you feel better about yourself and more confident, this confidence does not transfer to the real world. You will still lack confidence because you can't delete your mistakes in conversations or distort and transform yourselves to someone you are proud of. So in a sense technology presents us dangerous illusions that we desperately want to be