Apr 12 2012: I am an intelligent, attractive, alpha female, dreamer with an interesting 27 behind me. This makes friendships a difficult thing to maintain in person. Most men want it to go somewhere, most women feel threatened. As a result I am more of a homebody. My longest friendships (with men and women) have been maintained through mail, emails and social media (namely Facebook, once I jumped on that band wagon). I have made incredibly intelligent friends from around the world that intellectually stimulate me on a daily basis through FB, and I couldn't be more grateful for it.
I am half way through 'Alone Together' and I recommend it to every one I talk to. I am grateful for your commentary on relationships throughout the book. The point that we use tech to hide from each other out of fear, and a consequence of that is stunting our growth. We have spent the last 20 years creating a society of protection and safety rails, and all this does is hurt us more. I feel your research on our interactions with tech and social media is an amazing meter of that overall experiment.
It kills me reading the anecdotes with children, particularly those whose broken homes and/or loneliness shine through in their interactions with robots. They yell volumes to me about our society and how we need physical communities now more than ever.
I feel your book is not only a study into how we interact with tech, and how it's changing us, but I also see it as a plea to be thankful for the messy. Be thankful for the chaos. It's the downs that make us appreciate the ups. 'Alone Together' has encouraged me to embrace those relationships I was surviving, and appreciate the chaos of people more.
I could never thank you or praise you enough for writing it and my friends and I look forward to any future works.
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I am half way through 'Alone Together' and I recommend it to every one I talk to. I am grateful for your commentary on relationships throughout the book. The point that we use tech to hide from each other out of fear, and a consequence of that is stunting our growth. We have spent the last 20 years creating a society of protection and safety rails, and all this does is hurt us more. I feel your research on our interactions with tech and social media is an amazing meter of that overall experiment.
It kills me reading the anecdotes with children, particularly those whose broken homes and/or loneliness shine through in their interactions with robots. They yell volumes to me about our society and how we need physical communities now more than ever.
I feel your book is not only a study into how we interact with tech, and how it's changing us, but I also see it as a plea to be thankful for the messy. Be thankful for the chaos. It's the downs that make us appreciate the ups. 'Alone Together' has encouraged me to embrace those relationships I was surviving, and appreciate the chaos of people more.
I could never thank you or praise you enough for writing it and my friends and I look forward to any future works.