Schaeffner 1
Lena Schaeffner
Mr. Alan Reid
English 101-71
09/06/12
Literary Analysis ‘The Flight from Conversation – Sherry Turkle’
The article “The Flight from Conversation” by Sherry Turkle, published in The New
York Times on April 21, 2010, deals with the fact the internet involves the society more and
more badly. Sherry Turkle writes about how society expires in bad habits, texting the whole
time even though they are sitting at home during dinner. But the questions is if non-verbal
conversations are real and could the internet maintain a decent relationship? Using the internet
to maintain friendships is for sure a good way but it is true that real human relationships are
not able to hold through the internet.
In the article, the reader can record some important facts about the society daily lives.
Sherry Turkle writes about the conversations through messages, internet and phone in which
the real time conversations getting lost more and more. Nowadays, everyone lives in his own
bubble and is unable to start a good and useful conversation with eye-contact. That means the
good society dies more and more. However, even the kids do not learn to communicate with
each other in real time. Their parents do not teach them how to start a good conversation
because they are all involved in their own non-verbal conversations through internet. The way
of having good relationships and friendships got lost over the past few years because humans
lose real social contact increasingly. But why are people involved in the internet that much?
Because everyone is feared of being alone and an individual got the necessary understanding
that someone wants to achieve. Society is scared of being alone and no one is listening to
someone. Adapting in the internet can mean sharing someone’s thoughts, beliefs, everything
