Sherry Turkle is a psychologist and has already done a TED talk before about technology. Although when she did one before technology was in a much different place where online chat rooms existed and people were just beginning to stray from desk top computers. Turkle’s main argument is that we as a society are getting too involved into our mobile devices. Her evidence is that she surveys and studies people and she’s finding out that people are texting during board meetings, funerals, family breakfast and dinner and many other things.

My view, however, contrary to what Turkle has argued, is that technology allows people at a distance to connect as though they were right next to each other which is uniting the world in a new and unique way. It might seem like we are becoming more distant from the people around us, but in reality we are just becoming closer to people who are not with us at the moment.

Although, I do agree with Turkle that people sometimes prefer to have conversations over text instead of in person because it allows someone more time to think about exactly what they want to say without the pressure of having to say it immediately. Online communication is a way that people can communicate without being nervous about the person being right in front of them waiting for a response.