Connected But Not Alone

CONNECTED BUT NOT ALONE
Technology is a part of our life now which in that innovation we dependent to it. We used it to
rely every day to share wants inside of our mind. “Connected but not alone ‘by Sherry Turkle’s
she tackled about how technology have a great impact into our lives when it comes in
communication and that can affect also us, as a an individual. When the technology exist our
communication it become different than before people like texting nowadays instead
communicating with one another. Technological world brings us together but it also bring us to
be apart from the reality. It also an enormous problem in our society we instead relying to each
other but we are relying to our phones.
To be with for me I want to be neutral to these topic because sometimes we need to cut our ties
to some people. Sometimes we need it just to have a peace of mind especially nowadays that
there’s a lot of toxic people. We need to isolate ourselves so that we can refresh our mind. I
agree also in Sherry Turkle’s that technology have a huge impact into our life that we lost a
connection in one another. Sometimes we need someone that we can lean on when life was
tough. Sometimes we need someone who can listen to our rants. However we need a
communication in our life especially nowadays it was easy to us to get depressed.
People who text more are most likely to be socially awkward. Texting or messaging is only
surface-level communication. People who text or message most likely do not produce any
meaningful conversations (Villines, 2014). I believe in these because we don’t really know if
they sincere to you text doesn’t have emotion to express we misunderstood everything. The best
communication is that when you feel someone presence. We can able to share nor express
ourselves so that we reconnect ourselves to have a meaningful and deep conversation.
I believe as an individual I was dependent on technology when it comes to my silent battle.
People nowadays don’t listen to them they can’t share what’s on their mind. People may think
that they be a burden to that person we don’t know that person have a silent battle that they carry
on. However, there is this one reason that I feel that all others can relate and that is that we have
experienced of losing someone and we do not want that feeling again to happen. We also do not
show our true self to others; we are afraid of what they may think of us. In order for us to be less
afraid of connecting with others, we need to accept ourselves and show them our authentic selves
(Sharif, 2016). I agree with that it’s not easy to losing or cut ties to someone we easily to get
attached. Nowadays people also can judge you easily just by looking at you but they don’t know
what you’ve been through.
We are always distracted from our life; we could never fully be present in our life. Technology is
one of the distractions in our life. To fully be able to handle being alone, we need to be fully be
part of our experience and in the real world (Arndt, 2018). I agree with these because we all
know that technology is the reason why we are distracted to our life. We dependent to
technology that’s why we creating our own world. Technology makes us that it’s okay to be
alone but we didn’t know that being alone when you experiencing it in the reality.
Toxic relationship can be detrimental to our own sense of self, leading to feelings of exclusion,
loneliness, and abandonment. At the same time, not accepting one’s self also has a negative
effect on one’s sense of belonging. Many people will work to improve their external
relationships to find that feeling of belonging. However, if we focus on improving the internal
relationship with ourselves, there is a sense of freedom and contentment that allows us to go out
into the world, confident in who we are. A strong sense of self-worth results in better judgment
when forming meaningful relationships, which further strengthens our concept of self (Belford,
2020). I agree with these statement if we cut off ties we could know ourselves and value our
worth as an individual.
Sherry Turkle’s “Connected but not alone” it was great she tackled it well and explained it and
she made a great point that technology it have a huge impacts of our ways to how we
communicate now. I believed that technology has ruined our ways of communicating with
others. When a group of people goes out, you would see that they are using their phones instead
of being there presently with one another. There is even a word for that situation and it's
"pubbing"—a combination of "phone" and "snubbing." It is now normal to see a group of people
using their phones rather than talking with one another (Beck, 2016). I believe in these statement
even in our home we just facing our phone while eating. It’s our daily routine we are so
dependent to technology that we can’t able to talk how was going on in our life.
Given these points in Sherry Turkle’s how technology have an impact into our life. Even though
we shouldn’t depend ourselves. Technology is always there but not all the time we can lean on
and to share. Sometimes we need someone we can talk to, to share what’s in our mind. We
should make time to the people that surrounds us we should create a good and evocative
communication to one each other because communication can help and heal us.

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