Summary and response to "Stop Googling . Let's Talk."

  The writer of this essay Sherry Turkle is a professor from M.I.T. who is a professional in the field of people's relationship with technology.In essay she introduces several ideas and reasons why people rely on communicate by using technology and provides solution to try to solve the problem generated by the them.

 The first idea that she introduces is that the "rule of three " mentioned in the essay. She explains that this rule can make the people feel they can drop in and out freely and keep the conversation relatively light. She also shares similar idea in her TED talk "Connected, but alone?" by using the term " Goldilocks effect". This explain why the people tend to use their phone while having a conversation because when using their phone, they can feel they they are in their comfort zone: not too close with your friends but also not too distant either. However, I agrees to that over-relying on technology to communicate can bring a huge problem in shaping people's characteristic. She mentioned a few examples and the most profound example is that the loss of empathy among children. As we all know, empathy is one of the most precious values in human being. Imagine what will happen to the world if our empathy gradually disappeared from us, we then have no differences between us and robots and bring huge problems to the society.

The second idea that she implicated that people seldom want to be alone but actually loneliness can help us to find ourselves. She said that "We turn time alone into a problem that needs to be solved with technology." which she think it is not right. We learn to concentrate and listen to ourselves in loneliness and this the skills we also need to involve in a conversation. I strongly agrees to this idea because only during lonely time, we will have the time to sit down and review our mistakes and improve ourselves to be a better person.

  

  

  The third idea she mentions is that human are vulnerable. During the time we are with our phones, we can always choose what we want. However, in conversations, it is harder for us to control the information that we want to receive. So that we tend to stay in our comfort zone and stay tune with the phone which always have similar thoughts and ideas with you.

  I strongly believe that the several ideas above explain why the people tend to use their phones instead of involving a real conversation among their friends and families. I also agrees the writer's view that with the changing the use of technology, it can help us to communicate with each other better. Nonetheless, I think this is improtant for us to take this problem serious and think about the use of technology in the future.