Sherry Turgle Social Technology

With social technology’s advanced development, I believe social technology is evolving the ways in which people communicate. Many years ago, the ways people communicate were limited to face-to-face, letter or telephone. However, emails, text’s and internet (Facebook, chat rooms, etc), which are dominant in the technological medians have changed human lifestyles tremendously. People rather text than talk; use social technology to communicate with the loved ones whenever it is. In Sherry Turkle’s essay: “” she worries about human connection with social technology might have negative impacts to human intimacy. Naomi Klein, author of “” talks about both beneficial and destructive “fences” that are existed to keep people isolated from things that
Turkle states that “Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies”, and yet social technology works in opposite. As people use social technology to solve problems in their primate lives, their relationships in private lives are being damaged. However, many people like Nora and her fiancé (who are talked in Turkle’s essay) don’t realize the problem that social technology might be the barriers that have bad impacts in their private lives. “Some of these fences are hard to see, but they exist all the same” (Klein 195). Social technology might make human lives miserable since intimacy is so important that it should be treated sincerely. Nora and her fiancé didn’t see the fences when they announced their engagement news from email but not face-to-face telling people. Nora explained that they just wanted to do things simply and efficiently, and announcing the wedding date by email is the best way. However, this might hurt people who believe that they are supposed to be invited by other sincere ways. “When technology engineers intimacy, relationships can be reduced to mere connections” (Turkle 277). When Randy, Nora’s brother, got their engagement news, he felt extremely upset because he think Nora’s heavily dependence on social technology made her lose the consciousness of the importance of their family. Many years ago, before the widely usage of social technologies, human intimacy such as family companion were treated important and serious. However, now people are lazier to deal with intimacy because social technology can help them deal with it efficiently and simply. Badly, people don’t realize the exist of fences, and if they are more willing to conquer the complexities that they call individually to inform the wedding dates and keep caring in the real relationships, the relationship with their loved one can be