How Does Technology Affect Relationships

Communication has shifted from primarily technological use to face-to-face, especially, as Violet’s Feed starts malfunctioning. This has a huge impact over Titus’s and Violet's relationship because face-to-face conversion made them confess their feelings, and confronting their feelings in this way causes them to ostracize each other. Furthermore, Technology has a huge affect. Face-to-face conversion became the main processes of communication since Technological communication made Titus feel empty as Violet’s condition worsened, thus he did respond to any of her ‘m-chats’. For example, “I didn’t listen to any of them, any of the stories. I just kept them. I didn’t touch them on the way home. They just bleed. (Anderson, 254)” This shift of
communication has many impacts over Titus’s and Violet’s relationship. For example, “You were planning this whole eternal love thing, and I was suppose to automatically love you you always, but I didn’t even know. I was just thinking about going out with you... Just latch on to this one dumbass, and make fun of his friends… (Anderson, 271)” Consequently, this conversation has a huge impact over their relationship as it ends. It, also, establishes as they are forced communicate more and more face-to-face, they say what they really feel and think, and this, definitely, changes the relationship they had. Technology has large impact over all the characters relationships because it dictates who someone is and how they act interact with others.
For example, Titus who treats people with selfishness without knowing, “‘You can’t blame me.” “Why?” “I didn’t do this” “You took her to that nightclub” “She-but she wanted to live. She told me she wanted to live.” He hissed, pointing at her, “Does this count.(Anderson, 289)” This establishes that the Feed has made Titus so self absorbed; he can’t even use empathy to figure out he has done wrong to Violet . Furthermore, this shows the reader that he may lack basic social skills like sharing and empathy, which is a huge impact over many of his relationships. For example, ‘“You made her apologize for sickness. For her courage. You made her feel sorry for dying. (Anderson, 291) ”’ This further demonstrates how technology has impacted him because he couldn’t see that until was pointed out to him like a child being scolded by a parent. This influence affect who he is and how he acts (The only reason technology seems to have a major effect on Violet and her father relationship with Titus is because everyone else is the same way, and doesn’t notice or care about it). In other words, it’s the reason he’s able to do and say those thing to Violet without a care. And when technology is the influence for making someone sorry for dying it has a huge impact on relationships just like his and
Violet.