Posted on Friday, 19 October 2012

In Constant Digital Contact, We Feel 'Alone Together' (NPR Fresh Air)

psychotherapy:

“It’s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation. I do studies where I just sit for hours and hours at red lights watching people unable to tolerate being alone. Its as though being along has become a problem that needs to be solved and then technology presents itself as a solution to this problem…Being alone is not a problem that needs to be solved. The capacity for solitude is a very important human skill.”

- Sherry Turkle, on texting and the inability to be alone

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    enjoyed reading the whole article...buy her book, “Alone Together”, because
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    I’ve been thinking about this in my husbands 2 week absence.
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    such an interesting research project.
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