Hi, I need help with essay on EVALUATIVE -Always on(Chapter 8) from Alone Together:Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherr. Paper must be at least 1250 words. Please, no p

Hi, I need help with essay on EVALUATIVE -Always on(Chapter 8) from Alone Together:Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other by Sherr. Paper must be at least 1250 words. Please, no plagiarized work!

She also proposes that technology has made people enjoy leading more than one life and that it has made people adopt the concept of multitasking even more. Finally, Turkle says mobile phones, the Internet and the virtual world have caused people to live their lives in a paradox. I have to partially agree with the author’s position. First I will present a summary of her thesis and then evaluate her ideas. “Always On” of Sherry Turkle’s book Alone Together is presented in five different parts. In the opening paragraphs, the author likens MIT researchers she met in 1996 to cyborgs as they were constantly walking around with their electronic devices. She describes how these young people felt more comfortable around others thanks to the gadgets that were on them. Later in the section, Turkle explains how the generation of today has become ‘cyborg-like’ with their smartphones and technological devices, becoming what used to be considered alien in 1996. In “The New State of the Self: Tethered and Marked Absent”, Turkle (143) explains that people of today cannot be separated from their devices. Everyone is tethered or attached to their lives and activities even if far away from home. Thanks to connectivity through mobile phones and e-mails, people feel at a loss if they are not able to check the Internet or receive text messages. Another point Turkle presents in this section is that people who are busy on their devices are truly not in the space they are occupying because their minds are on the conversation on their mobile phone, the e-mails, their avatars, etc. The next section “The New State of the Self: From Life to The Life Mix” discusses how some people live their real life while simultaneously discovering and living another life on the Internet. Life mix, according to one of Turkle’s subjects, is the combined online and offline life of an individual. (Turkle, 148) The author shares how people who develop or create a virtual life do so to escape from the disappointments they have in their real-life. Also, virtual life provides for these people a place to be what they always wanted to be or have what they only wish they could have. In the virtual world, individuals present themselves as different persons. With technology as a mask, they are free to express themselves to others in a way they cannot express themselves to their family or friends who share the same physical space. The third section of Chapter8 talks about “multitasking and the alchemy of time (Turkle, 150).” The author shares that multitasking has become what characterizes living with technology. From the classrooms to the home, technology has changed the individual’s idea of time because in this age one can juggle several tasks all at once. Moreover, everyone expects results right away, aware that technology can actually make this happen. Finally, in “Fearful Symmetries” (155) the author shares her concern that thanks to the deluge of things technological devices bring people, individuals will start treating each other with a sense of detachment. Persons will just be automatically replying to e-mails or answering phone calls and text messages like a machine, without time to pause and breathe. The author summarizes with a reflection on how society has realized that although technology has indeed brought good things to people’s lives, it has also left undesirable effects.