A liable culprit, for the radical change in people’s mode of association, is the drastic growth of the internet. People have progressively lost their core social connections and are instead opting for superficial relations determined by the number of online friends or affiliates. Some might argue that such sentiments are only upheld by technophobic individuals, incapable of embracing digital advancement. However, it would be ignorant to overlook these significant sociological changes and assume that their concurrent occurrence with rampant technology use is simply coincidental. Turkle amply negates this notion of dystopia in Alone Together, providing a comprehensive and convincing synthesis of experiential research, which shows that social media platforms impede healthy relations by elevating web addiction, fostering pretext and enhancing narcissism.

Turkle’s argument primarily draws attention to the peculiarity of social behavior triggered by technology. It is fascinating to note that an average American teen spends hours glued to the internet every day and sends more than two thousand text messages per month. Further, communication via email is deemed virtually obsolete by most young people, showing the rapid transition from one technological platform to another. Despite the fact that none of these technological advances existed in the relatively recent past, people have matched the exceedingly rapid digitization pace set by the young generations, easily creating virtual lives in chat rooms, in games requiring multiple players, and on blogs. The high number of participants in such virtual lives supports Turkle’s argument that people are increasingly finding simulations of real-life situations more attractive than actual life.&nbsp.This large number of internet and social sites addicts also validates Turkle’s concern that we live in a world, where people are training themselves to revere and avoid environs or situations that are not mediated by computers.