What I’m seeing is a generation that says consistently, ‘I would rather text than make a telephone call.’ Why? It’s less risky. I can just get the information out there. I don’t have to get all involved; it’s more efficient. I would rather text than see somebody face to face. Sherry Turkle Read Quote
I think that we live in techno-enthusiastic times. We celebrate our technologies because people are frightened by the world we’ve made. Sherry Turkle Read Quote
I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport. Sherry Turkle Read Quote
When I grew up, I lived in a neighborhood that had social clubs. It’s never delightful to glamorize one’s youth. My neighborhood was poor. But people felt part of the neighborhood. This was in Rockaway Beach, Long Island. Sherry Turkle Read Quote
It is painful to watch children trying to show off for parents who are engrossed in their cell phones. Children are nostalgic for the ‘good old days’ when parents used to read to them without the cell phone by their side or watch football games or Disney movies without having the BlackBerry handy. Sherry Turkle Read Quote
In solitude, we find ourselves; we prepare ourselves to come to conversation with something to say that is authentic, ours. Sherry Turkle Read Quote
The selfie makes us accustomed to putting ourselves and those around us ‘on pause’ in order to document our lives. It is an extension of how we have learned to put our conversations ‘on pause’ when we send or receive a text, an image, an email, a call. Sherry Turkle Read Quote
