Sherry Turkle would roughly predict the cell phone trend line would be increased as we move from left to right on the graph. Based on her argument, strong tie relationships will decline as people substitute them with weak tie relationships. More specifically, Turkle states that people are more likely to focus on the virtual community in order to connect with others and avoid too close intimacy. For instance, people do texting while they have chatting and constantly check online email even though they are with somebody else. As a result, people are physically in the same place, but in reality, they are not in the same location. In this view, the cell phone trend line would be increased as the core discussants are further and further apart geographically
