[www.keralites.net] ***** Do social networks make us 'less human'?

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor has claimed that social networking platforms are making people 'less human'. In her book titled 'Alone Together', sociologist Sherry Turkle writes that the way in which people frantically communicate with each other social networking platforms Twitter and Facebook represents a modern form of madness. "A behaviour that has become typical may still express the problems that once caused us to see it as pathological," she wrote in the book. Turkle said that social networking websites are isolating humans from the real-world under the pre-text of allowing them to communicate with each other. She said that technology was robbing us of a real human interaction,  "We have invented inspiring and enhancing technologies, yet we have allowed them to diminish us," Turkle wrote. The warnings come as a surprise to some, as two of her previous books shone a positive light on the benefits of technology.

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A behaviour that has become typical may still express the problems that once caused us to see it as pathological," MIT professor Sherry Turkle writes in her new book, Alone Together, which is leading an attack on the information age. Turkle's book, published in the UK next month, has caused a sensation in America, which is usually more obsessed with the merits of social networking. She appeared last week on Stephen Colbert's late-night comedy show, The Colbert Report. When Turkle said she had been at funerals where people checked their iPhones, Colbert quipped: "We all say goodbye in our own way." Turkle's thesis is simple: technology is threatening to dominate our lives and make us less human. Under the illusion of allowing us to communicate better, it is actually isolating us from real human interactions in a cyber-reality that is a poor imitation of the real world.

Do social networks make us 'less human'?

Courtesy : BBC, deepika

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