Critical Response: Development in communication technology makes people more lonely.
Now, this was a kind of clue given by Mr. Garrioch while I was still finding my way, and the fact is I really got into this speech. It's not a hard task, in fact, to see friends or family members or some other acquaintances so engrossed in text messages or some chatting apps in the iPhone. Seemingly, such a drastic development in communication technology tightened our relationships with each other; we can now talk more freely with our friends while comfortably lying on a bed, which is a blissful thing for a more convenient conversations. However, it actually brought some drawbacks as well, as the lecturer here, Sherry Turkle, mentions; we are also very prone to a new kind of loneliness created by this strange mood. What is the real conversation for? Isn't it that we are too obsessed with our own cell phones that we are so anxious about feeling lonely when they may disappear?
I believe that this issue is not only concerend with cell phone text messages or e-mails, but also with social networking services such as Twitter or Facebook. I have worried a bit that whether those ways of communication are really used as online media of "real talks" or simply a place where you feel that you are commnunicating by simply "liking" somebody's photos and so on. I want you all to seriously think about if the communication technology today is really making people closer, or making them simply more vulnerable to loneliness.
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