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Sherry Turkle
To put it bluntly, I disagree with the spirit of Shelly Turkle's argument. I won't deny that there's merit in looking upon the past and seeing what has been lost to us. Change is inevitable -- it brings many boons with it, but also tends to lose things along the way. That being said, since time immemorial, people have feared change. They view it as cultural devastation, and they blame religious doubt, rock n' roll, or whatever modern media outlets have decided to pin on millennial for all of society's perceived new evils. And yet, when I look around, we all seem to be doing just fine. Maybe I'm being a little cynical here. Or, just a tad defensive. After all, it'd probably wouldn't be a stretch to say online connections have saved my life. They've given me an outlet to find countless friends -- people I can really connect to, who actually share the same interests and passions as me, and who I feel I can genuinely rely upon. Somewhere past elementary ...
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