Based on "The Flight From Conversation" by Sherry Turkle
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We all communicate, but we don't always connect.
In "The Flight from Conversation," Sherry Turkle tackles how we utilize technology and how technology affects our communication skills nowadays. With the use of our mobile devices, we can easily send and receive text messages to and from our beloved ones, send emails to our colleagues, and chat with friends on social media, but how often are we really connecting and fostering relationships? As technology advances today, it became our day-to-day companion, and we have been so overly reliant on it to the point that we have become slaves to our devices, causing us to forgot to connect with others.
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Is there a real difference between Communication and Connection? Yes, there is, because, as Sherry Turkle says, the method of communicating through technology today sacrifices our face-to-face conversation, which means we are only communicating but not genuinely connecting to and with others. It is evident today in the Centennial Generation or more commonly known as Generation Z. We are together but not together; we do not engage in one another even though we are in the same place or room. Besides, it can harm the relationship between individuals by too much use of technology, mainly affecting how we interact. Communication is about using our heads, minds, voice, and hands to type, but True Connection comes from the heart, having a conversation full of excitement, happiness, and laughter.
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Furthermore, she introduces what she calls the Goldilocks Effect, "not too close, not too far, just right," which is about the amount, detail, and type of communication essential to increase effectiveness while decreasing inaccuracy. Also, this averts excessive scope on the "too much" side and avoid the insufficient on the "too little" side. We must be in the middle, in the "right" place. We should meet half-way so that we can converse and interact without getting out of hand and, at the same time, without being too detached from one another so that a balance will be established.
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Thus, having a face-to-face conversation can help build a true connection within us; it needs to be emphasized in our lives before technology engulfs the ability to engage with others in person. We should start doing it now before it's too late.
How about you? Are you truly connecting with people, or are you simply relaying information, without building relationships? Comment down your thoughts below✍️ so that others may also know!💓
References:
Turkle, Sherry. "The Flight From Conversation" The New York Times. The New York Times, 21 April 2012. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html
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I used to just relay information, sit in my phone for hours and merely connect with others instead of communicating, but now as I've read your blog, it gave me some insight on what really matters the most.
ReplyDeleteGreat points. In this time, technology really helps with everything. We all know that with the use of social media, we can't really build a genuine relationship with anyone.
ReplyDeleteOnce we're connected with people and in order to sustain that connection, we need to converse.
ReplyDeleteWe should also learn how to converse not just to connect.
ReplyDeleteWe should keep in mind to properly use technology so that it can improve the conversation we have with one another
ReplyDeleteWe should always remember that we can find the true connection through conversing face to face. The modern technology is just another way to help us to make it easy but it does not guarantee the connection we are aiming for.
ReplyDeleteWe should always remember that we connect for real if we learn to converse. connection=conversation
ReplyDeleteI agree that using technology, it can help us in almost everything. But still, we need also to converse because it is not that sincere if we'll just connect but don't converse.
ReplyDeleteYes, we must start using this modernize technologies properly before it's too late. It's hard to get rid of it. It is that really affecting coversational skills and relationships towards other people.
ReplyDeleteHaving a face to face conversation is really better rather than scrolling in social media for hours without learning anything.
ReplyDeleteWe should not only be together physically, but be together in thoughts and in heart. We should really engage in face to face conversations when we are together and value the time with people. Nice blog!
ReplyDeleteA great conversation requires connection.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I feel like I'm connected with other and sometimes I feel like I'm not.
ReplyDeleteWe should understand the feelings of other because that's a real conversation.
ReplyDeleteI can say that I can trulyt connect to people online, since pandemic, the only means of communication that I have with my friends is through social media. Because of our phones we're able to update each other on the things that's happening in our lives.
ReplyDeleteYou can see the sincerity and also it will create a good memory to treasure when we use the face-to-face conversation and we will appreciate it more. But in online conversation, we cannot easily determine the real emotion.
ReplyDeleteI'm just relaying information nowadays but I prefer face to face conversation because I can see and the true and pure emotions of the one I talk with.
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