Keep An Eye On The Sky

Technology has made communicating difficult and has slowly ruined people’s friendships and relationships. Henry David Thoreau says, “Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very intervals, not having had time to acquire any new values to each other.” Interpersonal communication with people is fading away with time, but simultaneously, technology has given people connection with those far from them. Although it does have its advantages, technology has ruined the connection and intimacy people once experienced in a pre-digital age.

The relationship between people has been changed because of the widely using of new technology. People can easily communicate with other people by using different kinds of methods. Because of the use of those methods, people have more space with others and frequently hide part of themselves on the Internet in order to show the best of them. In the essay “Small Change: Why he Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted”, Malcolm Gladwell states that the relationship between people can be categorized by strong ties and weak ties. For example, in the past, people communicated by the method of interpersonal hierarchies, which are considered as strong ties. However, with the development of technology, social network, such as Twitter, Facebook, and Skype, which have become very popular in the world, are regarded as weak ties. Moreover, in the essay “Alone Together”, Sherry Turkle claims that people are distant with others and get lost in the virtual world through the new technology. She points out that now people communicate with others through technology instead of directing talking to real people. Furthermore, some people suppose that sociable robots as substitutes for people. Both Gladwell and Turkle agree with the idea that technology plays an important role on people’s connection. Technology only creates inauthentic relationship because it hides identity of many disorganized people.

I learned that connecting with people is need and a personal fulfillment. I am, and have always been, genuinely interested in people. In William Cronon’s, Only Connect, he quotes a friend’s father advising his son, that whenever he had a conversation, “his job was to figure out what’s so neat about what the other person does” (Cronon, 1998).

The interaction that I encountered happens ten years ago. When I moved to the United Stated, everything was still new to me. I had to adjust into many different things in the American's society in order to be at a social standard norm level here. In addition, my English was acceptable to get the message delivery to the other person. I clearly remembered one day as I was working out in a strange neighborhood that far away from my house, I started to get lost at a moment. I began to panic and could not figure out a way out to get to the main street. Therefore, my goal at that time was to get approach to one of the neighbor's house asking for a direction to get home. I want to interact with a complete stranger person and see how they would respond to help me. I chose this interaction because it gives chance to practice small talk with unacquainted person whenever there is an unexpected situation arises as well as to overcome the language barrier.

Do you want your child to have a higher risk of skin cancer or other terrible diseases? Do you want your child to never be able to play outside with all their friends? Nobody wants their child to have an unhealthy life or be sad because they have no friends to play with. Everyone wants to hope for their child to have a happy and healthy life. Humans not thinking about how the world’s climate change is dramatically changing does not make the climate not change. There are many scientist that have proven that climate change is happening and it has been happening for many, many years. Understanding what is happening

Finally, Gabby got to her house, bolted into the doorway, and raced up to her mom and said “Look, I caught a catfish! It is about the size of an elephant’s foot!”

Person to person communication is an instrument utilized by individuals all around the globe. Its motivation is to advance and help correspondence. Be that as it may, this sort of innovation may accomplish more damage than great. It is changing how we impart, as well as how we associate with each other in day by day life. Sarah Zay, of USA Today, expressed that "With the ascent of sites, for example, Facebook, long range informal communication might be very nearly swapping customary individual associations for the people to come" (1).Traditional cooperations will keep on being at hazard on the off chance that we don't understand the impacts of our online networking. Long range informal communication influences our lives from multiple points

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People need to keep a connection with the outside world to achieve harmony, however technology sometimes cannot build an intimate connection with human

When people are too into their phones they forget about the people that are actually around them. In “The Pedestrian” Mr. Mead explains a futuristic world where people do not go outside or do much of anything that does not involve a screen. The story makes the statement, “... deciding which way to go, but it really made no difference; he was alone in this world of A.D. 2053, or as good as alone.” This shows that by being too “plugged-in” people lose touch with what being human really means. Even though most people use technology as a way to stay in touch with people who they normally would not talk to in real life the conversation lacks what an in person conversation would contain. Some of these are the empathy that is not all the way there when sent through technology also, context is shortened and not as in depth than if it was in person. Right before Sherry Turkle’s TED talk in 2012 she got a typical text from her daughter saying “Mom, you will rock.” Sherry explained that getting this text was “like getting a hug” but even though this was a good message in her eyes people should acknowledge that no matter how much a text could touch someone being there in person to deliver the message yourself will always be better. These are the reasons humans should watch how much time is spent on technology instead of time with the people around

Fishing is something that is seen as a sport to many people. In their eyes, it is an opportunity for them to showcase their competitive side and even make money. Others use this activity as a hobby or a way to relax. However, this activity can actually be used to teach children some valuable life lessons.

As the use of technology surges, mankind’s behavior evolves in a strange way. People have paid so much attention to being up to date with social media, friends and the news that they have lost the ability to communicate and have an actual conversation. Additionally, our compulsion to the Internet has resulted in the tendency of people getting paranoid, not being able to self-reflect and be who they actually are. The pressure of perfection we have inhibited from the Internet has cost us the simplicity of life and what it has to offer. We walk on ground that has held us, fed us and grew us, and yet some of us don’t have a single ounce of gratitude. We talk to people and vent to them but when it’s our time to listen, we only pay attention to what matters to us. We have grown into a selfish species that only thinks of themselves and what benefits them because the Internet has thought us to be efficient instead of passionate.

Technology is one main reason why people have disengaged from social life and become more isolated. People have learned that they do not need to actually talk to someone physically to make a new friend. This is a problem because the idea of going up to someone and starting a conversation will slowly become unknown. This will consequence in the extinction of the traditional human interaction people used to have. Turkle believes that when people use “the advantage of screen communication,” and technology to reach out to others, there is a downgrade in the quality of the relationship (Turkle 374). There is no certainty in knowing if someone is being genuine or if they are even who they say they are online. People have learned to use technology

In today’s society, technology has allowed us to communicate with others in a number of ways which, on face value, gives the impression that we are a more social, tightknit society that

There is a transformation happening today that is completely changing the way that we do things. The ways that we are communicating are shifting from face to face interactions to short, interactive messages. Technology seems to be making it easier to stay connected, but it is restricting our interactions with others and leading to isolation.