Jonathan Safran Foer How Not To Be Alone Analysis

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Answer 1: In the article named “How Not to Be Alone” By Jonathan Safran Foer discusses that how technology affecting the connection of people in society. Technologies made people possible to keep in touch at a distance, but further the world gets from our hearts. Moreover, technology can our save time, but hide our emotion. I believe that people in society will become more distant from each other. Smartphone was not popular when I was in high school. Times like these, the best way to learn is not Google but ask your classmate. Kate, a girl who sits in front of me, was good at biology. We met on the first day of our high school in China, and I knew immediately we were going to become good friends. Afterwards, I ask her many questions of biology after school, she always teaches me with patience. Furthermore, I teach her math back. Over and over, we met and talked, then we became good friends. Not only we study, we go out to play when we have …show more content…

Smartphone became popular during these years, technology changed our lives. There are many things that can be done by our smartphone to make our lives more convenient. Such as, we can search answer by our phones when we have questions. We don’t need to go outside to know the world’s news on time. One smartphone can support your tutoring, navigation, shopping, chatting, etc. Therefore, we started spending more time on a phone than a real meet up. The more we call and FaceTime to share time, the less we have opportunity to communicate face to face. Consequently, Min and I were not closer than we used to be. Now we just know each other from our post on social media, and then bump our finger on “like”. What else had happened in our real lives, we had no idea. Even the posts on the social media, we can't be sure of that. Our shadow on the internet is acting as ourselves, but it is not ours. Maybe we were acting the shadow itself in our real lives, and counting our