The Limits Of Friendship Analysis

Technology. It truly is a wonderful thing but is it always helpful. Thats is your personal opinion but through the work “What is it about the 20- somethings” by Robin Henig and “The Limits of Friendship” by Maria Konnikova people can see that technology does three major things: hurts face to face interaction, Creates a lack in human interaction, and hinders the social development of kids. Technology is interesting that way, as it seems to help us but can actually stop our own development. That’s why technology is truly a hinderance of social development in the modern age. First;y, face to face interactions are vital in today’s society. People lack the ability to hold conversations and it is only getting worse. Robin Henig states ““In young adulthood, according to his model, the primary psychological challenge is “intimacy vs. isolation.”” (Henig 202). She is saying that kids like using technology to communicate compared to just going up and meeting the person. When she says intimacy vs. isolation she is saying that kids usually debate isolating themselves and interacting over the social media rather than being intimate and actually …show more content…
In this difficult world being able to communicate what you want to get across is such an advantage in life. Kids need to learn that it is better to go face to face and actually get a real interaction with someone and how emails and text messages can actually hurt them in the future. Konnikova says Interacting with people over the internet or gaming devices leads to a decrease in connections, “Without investing the face-to face time, we lack deeper connections to them, and the time we invest in superficial relationships come at the expense of more profound ones”(238). These deeper connections that she talk about are the ones that help build relationships and that can help you move on later in life. They just use their time on other things like video games and social media