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No Need To Call By Sherry Turle Analysis

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Is Using Technology Good For Us?
In the last decades, technology has developed so rapidly that people lived in long time ago could never imagine that we can work everything on our phones and get to know people and information all over the world. Some people think it is helpful for us to use technology because it offers us a lot of conveniences and helps us to achieve more. While others may think it as a negative thing to do because it makes people become lazier and lose many abilities. There are numerous articles debating on this topic, such as “No Need To Call” by Sherry Turkle,“Is Google Making Us Stupid” by Nicholas Carr, “Better Than Human” by Kevin Kelly, and “The Influencing Machines” by Brooke Gladstone and Josh Newfield. All four articles offer different point of views on the strengths and …show more content…

She gives a lot of examples of how people become anxious about having real conversations with people after they get used to texting each other. People get addicted to the fake world behind the screen and cannot get rid of it. They get lost in the unreal world and lose the ability to communicate in real-world conversation. it not only hurt people themselves, but also hurt their families and friends because the lack of communicate can damage their relationship in many

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