Alone together

Hello again!

This will be our last blog post and today's topic is about how technology is changing society and relationships.
We watched a video entitled "Connected, but alone?", a speech from a psychologist called Sherry Turkle, and we are going to discuss it.

"Alone together" tries to explain the feeling that we experience when we are physically together but our minds are in a virtual place, looking for a different way of interaction.
Scenarios like groups of friends sitting around the same table but not really enjoying this social situation or even preferring to stay home instead of actually meeting people, in order to connect to a virtual network. We never feel really lonely if we keep being online because it is easy to receive an actual and real-time feedback from friends everywhere.
The most typical example in students' life could be how we automatically look for our devices as soon as we get bored during a lecture. Even when we actually go out to enjoy real world's opportunities, we share those moments with our online friends via virtual channels, like if we need more and more socialization.
Turkle's point of view on this topic sounds more dystopian but still she keeps some positiveness about the usage of online communities, focusing on the fact that we just need to find the right balance between virtual and real life relationships.
When she talked about our will to escape loneliness using social media it really made us think about our own experience and we cannot say this is not a real problem.
She raised our awareness on this issue because it is not so easy to realize while we are just doing it in our everyday routine and maybe someone of us will acknowledge that in the future.

That is also the reason why we are leaving this blog to his destiny and we say a huge Goodbye to our numerous fans around the world!

Talk to you never,
With love,
Mörököllit :)

L.M, J.J , D.C, M.H, S.L, M.M, A.J, E.L