Connected but alone

Sebastian Carmona

Comment on Sherry Turkle video

I agree to what Sherry Turkle explains in the video. She mentioned something that I have realized some time ago. She said that in our time, technology is advancing very fast and it is starting to take control of our lives. Thanks to technology people is more connected to everywhere and everyone, but at the same time we are more disconnected than ever. Now we don’t want to have real conversations, we don’t want to make real connections with others, we want to feel that we belong to the world but just through a screen. The more we are connected with technology, the more we are isolated. We prefer having conversations by text than in person because that way we have control of what we are saying and what we are showing others about us. In a text you can think what you are going to say, you can edit, delete if you made a mistake and we like having that control. In a real conversation we don’t have that power. The world hate the idea of being alone, that is the reason why we are always in the smartphone trying to always be connected to feel less alone, but if we don’t learn how to be alone, we are going to be more lonely. Solitude is where we find ourselves and once we learn how to do that, we can have better relationships with others. I think that in order to be more connected to the real world, we need to learn how to disconnect from technology and find ourselves in the process. Use technology as a tool that helps us learn, create and work.