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I believe that this constant communication is causing adolescents to spend more time connected to others, and rarely leaving time for solitude. In William Deresiewicz’s essay titled “The End of Solitude”, he mentions how the contemporary self wants “to be recognized- it wants to be connected: it wants to be visible” (Deresiewicz 99). I am always browsing social media or answering text messages – something that is connecting me to others. I believe today’s generation, myself included, is afraid of solitude. Deresiewicz mentions how our use of technology “seems to involve a constant effort to stave off the possibility of solitude, a continuous attempt, as we sit alone at our computers, to maintain the imaginative presence of others” (Deresiewicz 105). If I am alone, I could miss out on something that is happening online. For example, if I receive a text, I will drop what I am doing to answer …show more content…
I have noticed that I am always waiting for a notification, a reply from someone. Sherry Turkle, who writes in her essay “Growing up Tethered”, refers to this as “waiting for interruption” (Turkle 430). One of the biggest problems I face with a cell phone addiction is the temptation to drop everything I am doing and answer a notification immediately. After discussing with a group of teenagers, Sherry Turkle notes that teens are “willing to take risks, to put themselves on the line. Several admit that they are tethered to their phones, they get into accidents when walking” (Turkle 430). As a society, we have put the desire to be connected to others (answering a text) above the aspect of