There's no reason you'd shoot Mother Theresa and Newt Gingrich the same way.
What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.
We expect more from technology and less from each other.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's imagination as the characters in their books. Nor did they seem to think one had done them a kindness by reading their writings. Rather they had done one the kindness by writing them.
If we cannot live entirely like human beings, at least let us do everything in our power not to live entirely like animals.
I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.
I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?