Rich Kyle A.

Bagui

Psych-1202

Reaction Paper on “The Flight From Conversation”

The Flight From Conversation by Sherry Turkle, the author explains on how technology
affect our conversation to one another. We are now in technology generation, where we are able to
communicate through phones and devices that are very common and used in our society. She explains
that we are in the era together with our love ones but being alone because of lack in communicating to
one another, we value is control over where we focus over attention. The author explains that we forgot
to be connected to one another. She said that we are in the generation where youth can’t express their
feelings personally, but saying their feelings through posting in social media sites and don’t know how to
socialize. We are in the generation where we only know how to start conversation in social media but
not in interaction with people. We are connecting through technology but it also the one that separates
us to the society. We ignore others because we are always doing something with technology, we always
look at our phones and there is no way someone can be able to deny that. The author said that we are
more interacting through texting. Texting does not make you see how the other person is really feeling,
his/her face expressions sometimes we don’t even understand what they try to say. It just isn’t the same
as when we talk to someone in person. There are fewer misunderstandings and more understandings
because reading a text has no emotions; we don’t know what the true feelings when we are
communicating through text, chats and other platforms that are using mobile phones. We are so many
friends virtually on Facebook, followers on Twitter and Instagram but are we aware that we are having
least of real and genuine friends not in virtual world but here in the reality. We are escaping real world
and escaping through technology. We are now afraid to communicate face-to-face, where in fact it will
teach us patience. It helps us to express our feelings and to say what we want to another person.
The author also said that we are using social media for us to connect to other people, but we want is to
have someone who will listen to us, in our problems, in our rants in life. We have no confidence right
now to express and find the one who will be there in our side. She said that most of us in our time
always think that no one listens, but it is because we are relying on other platforms that are not used for
interacting physically.

For me, I agree on what the author said, we are living in the world that is not true, we
are living virtually, we express, talk, communicate and socialize in the virtual world. We are not in the
real world where we can communicate personally, talk and socialize with one another. Technology affects
communication, it affects our daily lives. We need to lessen the use of mobile phones and platforms that
hinders us in communicating; we need to start talking to each other. Express our feelings and thoughts
personally and not through posting to social media. We need to interact to one another, just like in the
last sentence of the article we must look to one another and start the conversation.