She clearly stated that technology users need to stop focusing so much on technology and focus more on face-to-face conversation before it's too late. According to James Butler in How is Technology Destroying Our Society, "76% of the world's email accounts are for personal use, 24% are for business use" (Butler p. 2). To go along with this statistic, “There are 2.5 billion people in the world who use email. And this figure will rise to 2.8 billion by 2018” (Butler page 2). This may seem like just another statistic and may be considered no big deal or you may even wonder why this matters to me, explains Turkle, “Think of it as “I share, therefore I am.” We use technology to define ourselves by sharing our thoughts and feelings as we experience them. We thought, “I have a feeling; I want to make a call.” Now our impulse is: “I want to feel a feeling; I have to send a message'” (Turkle page 4). Our thoughts on technology have changed dramatically. Technology has gone from being something we have to something we have
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