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No matter how improbable an assertion is, if it is made with enough assurance it has an affect.

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Sherry Turkle

We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.

Afraid, Inspiration, Lovers, Motivation, Smitten, Technology
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We expect more from technology and less from each other.

Expect, Inspiration, Motivation, Technology

If you're happy with where the Internet, Facebook, and Twitter have taken you, I'm not the Grinch. Someone called me Sherry Turkle's "evil Luddite twin. " I'm not that. I enjoy the bounties of this technology. But if you fear that your connected life is running away with you, read the book, reflect, talk to your family and friends. I think we deserve better than some of the places that we've gotten with this technology.

Book, Family, Reflect, Running, Taken, Twitter

My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their voices and seeing their faces, trying to know their hearts. And it has left me thinking about solitude - the kind that refreshes and restores. Loneliness is failed solitude.

Uplifting, Loneliness, Heart, Study, Solitude

Kids have moved from, "I have a feeling, I want to make a call," to "I'd like to have a feeling, I need to send a text. " In other words, there's a continual need for validation. They're constituting a thought or feeling by sending it out for votes. That's really not where you want to be emotionally.

Feeling, Feelings, Kids, Like, Sending, Vote

When the social network doesn't find it convenient to have privacy, we say, "Okay, social network, you don't want privacy, maybe we won't have it either. " But we did this without having the conversation.

Convenient, Maybe, Okay, Privacy, Social, Social Network
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