Thoughts on Chapter 14 "The Nostalgia of the Superficial Young" by Sherry Turkle
Texting, blogging, e-mail, Tweeting, etc. All of these forms of social media are how young people communicate today. Will there come a time in our kids lives where they will experience "less pleasure for an immediate response?" OR will our kids and generations to come continue to live in virtual space?
I'm afraid to admit it, but my personal feeling is that technology is on the fast track to running the lives of our young; programming them as if they were robots taught to communicate in a specific way and direction. So...where does this leave us as parents? I'm not sure, but I find myself wanting to somehow capture the meaning of the written letter, stories on an actual page of paper and face-to-face communication in a way in which I can share with my children how important this type of communication is, instead of was.
While the Internet can play a part in constructing the identity of our youth, it can also create internal struggle and chaos. A line needs to be drawn, bt whose responsability is it to draw it? Will we soon have a way of Parents vs. Technology?
Food for thought: The above comments and questions capture only a few of the many I have after reading this chapter. In Turkle's last paragraph she says it best:
"Where we live doesn't just change how we live; it informs who we become. Most recently, technology promises us lives on teh screen. What values, Thoreau would ask, follow from this new location? Immersed in simulation, where do we live, and what do we live for?"
What do we live for?
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