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Essay / Technology and Human Connection: A Double-Edged Sword
In this YouTube video he describes how our current generation is so absorbed in technology or current style and it is our communication skills that are declining. The way we communicate through our tweets and online chats has become a barrier that separates us from reality; this creates a new image. He describes technology as an illusion and when we look up from our screens we are full of confusion, thus describing that by focusing on the fantasy of the Internet, it clouds our judgment of reality. Mr Turk argues that with increasing technology we tend to focus more on our appearance and thus become self-conscious about everything, with information being so widely disseminated to the general public, it is no wonder we look at ourselves ourselves and compared them to others. unknown stranger. He also brings up the idea of online chat. In our world today, we tend to speak through a screen rather than speaking face to face. When speaking through a screen, the same emotions expressed through the emoji are not the same as the real person's expression. The Internet and online social networks can bring community together more easily, but through this we lose something much more important:; Much more important than efficiency or even simplicity, it is the emotions shared between the people that we lose. The connection that helps bring people closer to each other, the feelings and sympathy we gain when the conversation begins, the emotions of sadness when chaos arises, the feeling of happiness when your friend gets married, those emotions we have tendency to leave behind us. for the sake of progress, for the sake of improvement. In the end, we wonder if it's really worth it? Losing all those emotions that consider us human, when at the end of all that "progress" what's left inside is nothing.