Sherry Turkle, in a recent TED Talk, brought up the idea that what constitutes a shared experience has been drastically changed by technology. It's changed the way we communicate and interact with each other, and maybe not for the better. Communicating through technology takes precedence over face-to-face relationships, making shared experiences now only fragments of what they should be.
In my family, we a have a saying; "Be in the moment." Whenever one of us is on their phone during dinner or movie night, it's guaranteed that this phrase will be yelled at them. By texting or using our phones while with others, we aren't just being rude; we are taking away from the experience as a whole because we aren't completely in it.
Although Turkle believes that our reliance on technology has to do with control, I think it's about boredom. We're so used to having all of the distractions that technology offers that they've become natural to us; we get bored doing just one thing now. Being connected to multiple outlets is addicting, and I don't think that is going to change anytime soon.
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