I thought this essay was interesting. I agree with Turkle when she says, "The tools we use to think change the ways we think," because it's true. It seems as if people, mainly teenagers, can't live without the internet. We become dependent on the technology to do our work for us, and that isn't good. I can relate to the section where she says, "...technological revenues offer us many different contexts for presenting ourselves online," because I take part in the social communites such as Facebook, Twitter, or Youtube. Although they're a way to keep in touch with friends, they're also a way for predators to communicate with innocents, and that can be dangerous.
Online communites also become a person's only "social life", meaning they are so hooked onto the internet that they can't function without it. Many of us result to copying and pasting into a word document rather than brainstorming and creating sentences ourselves. In a way, computers are stealing the intelligence from its users. I think it's a shame, but it's true when Turkle says, "...we are all computer people now," because we think, "primarily of the computer."
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