Article Subject: Social Networking Making You “Less Human”

Article Link: http://www.onlinedatingnewsblog.com/datingnews/socialnetworkinglesshuman-716.html

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Dr. Dato’s Brief:

Here is an interesting post on the subject of computers and gadgets which are consuming more and more peoples time and using these as communication devices to contact other people. The effect of this as the MIT Professor Sherry Turkle points out is that it is making us all “Less Human”.

Her argument is that we are building relationships with computers and technology and the more dependent we become on technology the less human we become.

I have actually reported this in my article “Why communication is more important to us than it has ever been” where the effects of technology may impair our lifestyles to communicate effectively with other humans. The long-term repercussions of placing technology between humans could potentially have dire consequences to mankind’s evolution and something we cannot ignore.

I will review more of Sherry Turkle’s work and provide my own account of some of the implications and importance of this subject matter to all of us humans.

Sherry Turkle on technology making us less human