The article “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk.”written by Sherry Turkle and published by the New York Times talks about how we communicate has drasticallychanged over the past several years.

She pointed out that digital devices like smartphones have extremelyaffected people’s way of communication andpersonal life. First, she explains howcell phone affect our dailyconversations. She also explains howtechnology affect our ability to empathize.According to her and some studies, theconversations taught children to adults empathy. Phones and new technology has hurt our abilityto interact and properly communicate with other people face-to-face.  We no longer can empathize or read the body language of the otherpeople weare interacting with. It gotten so worst that we do not even know when we are hurting the feelings of another person. The other issue of technology is that we fall to theway of thinking that we expect the world to respond like an app and work likealgorithms.

People whose attitude is like that seem to have lack ofempathy.I agree with the author’s opinion. The overuse of devices makes us not concentrate with what or who we are talking, lose our ability to empathize  and cannot gather other’s mood well. Using phones can change people’s behaviour especiallychildren’s and teenager’s behaviour. I also agree to the writer’s view that with the ever-changing use of technology, it can help us to communicate with each other better.

“Everytechnology asks us to confront human values. This is a good thing, because itcauses us to reaffirm what they are. If we are now ready to make face-to-faceconversation a priority, it is easier to see what the next steps should be.”(Turkle). Sherry is saying that if we are aware of the problem we can find solutions.Nonetheless, I think this is important for usto take this problem serious and think about the use of technology in thefuture.