I feel like technology and social media does affect our social and every day life. From personal experience, my three brothers are obsessed with gaming. One of my brothers sleeps in our living room because he stays up so late playing games. Technology has brought people together from around the world and has also closed them off from the world. My dad plays one of those war games and he has made friends with people from around the world and they arrange when to go online to play together at the same time because of the time change. It is interesting to make friends with people from around the world, but it isn’t the real you. Like in the Empathy Gap, Turkle says something like how we can say things more freely not in real time conversations and I agree with that. When I was younger I could hear my dad talking to his gaming friends and he would curse and it was confusing for me because that wasn’t like my dad so I have personal experience with that.
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