Connected, but alone ?
-Speaker: Sherry Turkle. (Psychologist)
-Title: Connected, but alone ?
-The main topic is basically about technology taking over our lives whether private or social and society prefer virtual worlds than living and socializing in the real world.(allowing technology take us to places we don't want to go)
Sub Points:-
1-Digital technology psychologically powerful it could change who we are.
2-Constant use of technology could become addictive. and a negative influence.
3-Goldilocks effect: sherry described it as people cant seem to get enough of each other only if they can have each other at distances and in amounts where they control.
4-Cell Phones can be used as tools to inhabit face to face dialogue.
5-Sherry talks about the need to focus on how technology can help bring us back to our real lives.our own bodies, our own communities.
6-Technology is the architect of Intimacies.
Some negative effects of social media:
- A False sence of connection.
- Addiction.
- Creates distances(less live communication)
- People start to expect more of technology rather than each other.
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