And I think many adolescents are also feeling the pressure of that. "And I think there's another thing about the Facebook identity and adolescence, which is that many adolescents used to play with identity, play with multiple identities in adolescence, and that used to kind of be their fun, and now there's one identity that counts - it's the Facebook identity. She thinks people who feel they are too busy to have conversations in person are not making the important emotional connections they otherwise would. Face-to-face interaction teaches "skills of negotiation, of reading each other's emotion, of having to face the complexity of confrontation, dealing with complex emotion," Turkle says. When Turkle asked teens and adults why they preferred text messaging over face-to-face conversation, they responded that when you're face to face, "you can't control what you are going to say, and you don't know how long it's going to take or where it could go." But Turkle believes that these perceived weaknesses of conversation are actually conversation's strengths. Her research investigates how devices are changing the way parents relate to their children, how friends interact, and why many people - both young and old - keep their devices in-hand all the time - even as they sleep. "The pull of these devices is so strong, that we've become used to them faster than anyone would have suspected," says Turkle, a clinical psychologist and the founder of MIT's Initiative on Technology and Self. Her book, Alone Together, explores how new technology is changing the way we communicate with one another. That feeling of emotional dependence on digital devices is the focus of Turkle's research. and I felt it kind of in the pit of my stomach," she tells Terry Gross. "I realized I'd left it behind, and I felt a moment of Oh my god. How?Īs soon as Sherry Turkle arrived at the studio for her Fresh Air interview, she realized she'd forgotten her phone. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Alone Together Subtitle Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other Author Sherry Turkle
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