Patetic's Prompt

In the article “Growing up Tethered”, by Sherry Turkle, she argues that technology today plays a major role in everyday life. Youths do not have the ability to branch off and have their own independence because of their reliance and attachment to technology. They also use technology to develop who they are as people and create an online personal identity of what they think is a perfect life. In comparison, their own life seems boring, pale and unwanted. Turkle also talks about how teenagers think of their phone as a “friend’s” and cannot live without it. When feeling a strong emotion, teens want to share their feelings with their friends and phone. I agree with Turkle’s opinion that technology is changing and will never be the same, which will be hard to improve this attachment to technology because too many teens are tethered.

It is very rare to find a family that sets down the technology for an hour to have a meaningful “family sit down.’’ The technology did help us humans to connect to our old friends who live on the other side of the world but also it has a created a divide between people who are close to us.

Ever since technology began so prominent in the modern world, can anyone remember going outside for more than 30 minutes and not see a cell phone or computer? Probably not, as these pieces of technology have become so ingrained in people’s lives, no one wants to leave their home without still being connected. And there is no reason to, as friends, family, and strangers share the same sentiments. Unplugging from technology is not only a decision people don’t make for personal reasons, it simply isn’t conducive to a productive life, as many people’s work and social lives wouldn’t be the same, if exist at all, without being connected to other people or the internet with just a single touch.

The use of technology has increased rapidly as time has gone by.  In “Growing Up Tethered”, Turkle proves that the young generation need to be connected at all times by relying on their phones a lot. Reality is now based on technology, which people now live off of. Turkle’s argument in “Growing up Tethered” was used in the form of a book, with a well-organized smoothly transitioned article telling of the disconnection of the world we live in today, due to technologies such as cell phones, and social networks. We are slowly becoming a society of distance amongst each other with face to face conversations being limited to 20minutes phone conversations, and on social network sights we are making a portrayal of a person who we are

44 transportation revolutionized people’s ability to connect globally. These immense changes led to a more mobile culture.

Family seems to be a big topic in manys books but even bigger on the web and through cyberspace. Perry Patetic in his excerpt argues that our highly mobile and growing society is creating a lack of relationship with family and friends. The author supports his argument by first explaining how easy it is to just move away. He continues by explaining how far we do travel when we do move away and by what mode of transportation. The authors purpose is to persuade the audience to not travel far from family and stay relatively close so that relationships can be kept, preserved, and maintained. The author establishes a sincere tone for families. The authors argument is invalid because we are in the age of online technology and services that allow us to see family from afar and cherish the few moments that we get in person.

Getting the family together for the holidays may be a little harder when they are 1000 miles apart. Perry Patetic in his passage, claims that it is too easy to move away from the friends and family of our past, this creates a loss in friendship and or relationships. Patetic supports his argument by first explaining why people are able to move so far away. He continues by comparing the differences between a close relationship to a long distance relationship. The authors purpose is to point-out the struggle of a long distance relationship in order to change one’s opinion on the topic. The author displays a sincere tone for the newer generation.

Family networks play a big part in settling new immigrants into housing, jobs and making them feel at home. In Jane’s case she lived with her aunt and relied on her to take care of her son while she was away at work. Her extended family essentially became part of her nuclear family because she was so far away from home. Jane talked about how a neighbor became her best friend/sister, since her immediate family was in a different country she incorporated new members into her fictive family. The apartment complex she lived in was full of people from her hometown. This stressed how much immigrants rely on family and friends as resources when they move to new places.

Surely, we can’t deny how technology helps us contact each other, but there is one idea that they overlooks, which is the addiction that people have on the cell phone. Whenever people congregate, the action they do is stare on the phones. Audrey, sixteen, a Roosevelt junior, describes how her relationship with her mother breaks up as her mother spent all her time on the phone every time they were together. “It could have been four days since I last spoke to her, then I sit in the car and wait silently until she’s done,” said Audrey (377). In other words, Audrey is trying to express her feeling that how the cell phone has estranged her and her mother. From these, we can tell that how technology has been a “drug” that keeps us from interacting with each

As the modern age fast approaches us, with the efficiency of a touch on a screen, this fast paced generation is losing its traditions that were laid down by the older ones. With the hustle and bustle of the technological era, people nowadays fail to slow down and properly look at the things in their life that keep them grounded. Perry Patetic in his passage argues that due to the fast pace of modern society, people have lost the close relationships that former generations enjoyed. The author supports his argument by first presenting the forms of transportation accompanied by mobile society. He continues by giving examples and contrasting the former generation with the current one. The authors purpose is to instill a sense of self reflection

“The advantages to living in such a highly mobile society are thus outweighed by the disadvantages that come from transportation”. Perry Patetic in his excerpt, Fast-Moving Society states that transportation is splitting up family and friends. The author supports his claim by first explaining how families do not live close to each other resulting in poor relationships. He continues by talking about how older generations did not have this problem. The author’s purpose is to explain how transportation is tearing families apart in order to hopefully reduce the amount of loved ones splitting up. The author speaks with an informal tone for families everywhere. The author is honestly crazy for saying these things. A fast moving society makes it easier to see family, and without that we would never see them.

To begin with, moden technology both unites and divides us, according to Thomas L. Friedman, whose article “The Taxi Driver” clearly represents the effects of today’s electronical devices on our lives. Sometimes even though we are physically close to a person, it often feels like there is a great distance because of distractions caused by devices such as smartphones, iPods, laptops, etc. Therefore, we often miss the chance to get to know foreign or extraordinary personalities, as Friedman for instance relates in his article.

Over the past few years, technology has become a significant part of people’s every day lives. It helps people connect with those far away, but in the process, disconnects themselves from others close with them. Technology has helped improve the lives of many people through transportation and more, but overall has torn us apart. The constant usage of technology has people’s eyes glued to a small screen; they often forget to communicate with those around them.

Technology has revolutionized communication and the world like nothing before. The Internet has given the world a freedom never explored in the past. The Internet has broken communication barriers to an extreme level. Now day’s two people from two different countries can talk or chat without interactions. Internet has given people the ability to connect forever through social networking. Some of the biggest world social networking services are Facebook and Twitter. Through technology communication is made much easier, but the communication with the people that are right next to us might be getting weak. Technology has its positive and negative impacts on society. It could keep us informed, but it could also affect anyone’s communication life. Even though it’s an easy communication barrier it’s being over used by society every day. The Internet has charge everyone and everything over the years, it has giving us the ability to be informed on a much deeper level. Families are losing their communication, but not just because of technology. Not everything is positive when it’s about technology. It could help us connect no matter the distance, but we could lose communication and relationships. The world has not yet notice that losing important face to face communication because of technology it’s important.

The traditional confines among regional places fade away and the human boundary demarcation substitutes each other in successive waves. This demarcation is brought about the memento of departure of the enormous technological advancement sweeping through any civilization. More specifically, this essay examines the ambulatory, or mobile, populations, cyber-culture and technological advancement. This is because The Sum of Our Follies is a riveting story "which pulls the reader into a world which is at once particular and universal" (Leon, 2014: