Blog Post 2 - Sherry Turkle

        While technology provides an enormous amount of benefits, some of the downsides that come with it can be harsh. In a social aspect, human relationships have been negatively impacted in a few ways. The first is the most obvious: a person can't really gain all the information and meaning from another person's statement through a text. Things like body language and tone of voice are lost when people communicate through texts. Turkle hits on this when she mentions that younger people have difficulty holding or starting a conversation. With texts, a person has much more control over how they respond.
        Getting the meaning of a text can be easy through further explanation, but one thing that isn't easy to explain is how a person is feeling. Not all feelings can be put into words and sometimes require action. When Turkle mentions the robot seal that an elderly woman was talking to so she could feel understood, she says she felt complicated. The final aspect that is impact by technology is the desire to fit in. People find it much easier to put their thoughts out on social media platforms than to actively discuss their thoughts and beliefs with another person face-to-face. Turkle explains this when she says that people feel as though they're being listened to when they post on social media.