Lab+4

//"If you don't learn how to be alone, you'll always be lonely" //

Sherry Turkle provides some good points. Technological advancement bought about a generation in need of constant stimulation. We listen to music when commuting, studying, exercising and even sleeping. We constantly alternate our gaze from screens on our phones, computers, TVs, cars and even our fridges. If thats not enough, marketer are now convincing us we need an extra screen to carry around, somewhere between a phone and a computer.

My point is, as Miss Turkle was discussing, is where do we draw the line? Technology is beneficial and has improved every aspect of our lives. It is there to embrace. But not to abuse. We should put in more time on self reflecting rather than hitting another dose of TV land or social networking.

Thanks to technology, our sense of a social community took global heights, but at the cost of weakening our personal and real life connections. The virtual world sucks us into the world of trying be acknowledged. Like Turkle points out, that blinking light on my Blackberry or new message on Facebook could be anything. I dont know what it is yet. It probably isn't anything big, but we dont care. In a fast paced, information aged world, an acknowledgment is a sufficient sense of purpose.

Till our next ego stimulating dose.