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    For Conversation, Press #1 By: Michael Alvear: Project in English Christel Joy Canta Kristel Mae Paaz

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    The text discusses how increased connectivity through technology has paradoxically made people feel more disconnected. The writer recounts experiences of being ignored by a friend on the phone and seeing people in the park absorbed in their devices rather than interacting. The proliferation of communication technologies like email, voicemail and automated services are facilitating avoidance of human contact. While technology has benefits, the writer argues it should not replace real conversations and human interaction.

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    The text discusses how increased connectivity through technology has paradoxically made people feel more disconnected. The writer recounts experiences of being ignored by a friend on the phone and seeing people in the park absorbed in their devices rather than interacting. The proliferation of communication technologies like email, voicemail and automated services are facilitating avoidance of human contact. While technology has benefits, the writer argues it should not replace real conversations and human interaction.

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    The text discusses how increased connectivity through technology has paradoxically made people feel more disconnected. The writer recounts experiences of being ignored by a friend on the phone and seeing people in the park absorbed in their devices rather than interacting. The proliferation of communication technologies like email, voicemail and automated services are facilitating avoidance of human contact. While technology has benefits, the writer argues it should not replace real conversations and human interaction.

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    FOR CONVERSATION, PRESS

    #1
    BY: MICHAEL ALVEAR

    Project in English
    CHRISTEL JOY CANTA
    KRISTEL MAE PAAZ
    For Conversation, Press #1
    by Michael Alvear

    "I’ve got a cell phone, e-mail, and


    voice mail. So why am I so
    lonely?"
    A funny thing happened on the
    way to the communications
    revolution: we stopped talking to
    one another. I was walking in the
    park with a friend recently, and his
    cell phone rang, interrupting our
    conversation. There we were,
    walking and talking on a beautiful
    sunny day and–poof!–I became
    invisible, absent from the
    conversation.
    The park was filled with people
    talking on their cell phones. They
    were passing other people without
    looking at them, saying hello,
    noticing their babies or stopping to
    pet their puppies. Evidently, the
    untethered electronic voice is
    preferable to human contact.
    The telephone used to connect you to
    the absent. Now it makes people
    sitting next to you feel absent.
    Recently I was in a car with three
    friends. The driver shushed the rest of
    us because he could not hear the
    person on the other end of his cell
    phone. There we were, four friends
    zooming down the highway, unable to
    talk to one another because of a
    gadget designed to make
    Why is it that the more connected we get,
    the more disconnected I feel? Every
    advance in communications technology is a
    setback to the intimacy of human
    interaction. With e-mail and instant
    messaging over the Internet, we can now
    communicate without seeing or talking to
    one another. With voice mail, you can
    conduct entire conversations without ever
    reaching anyone. If my mom has a
    question, I just leave the answer on her
    machine.
    As almost every conceivable
    contact between human beings
    gets automated, the alienation
    index goes up. You can’t even
    call a person to get the phone
    number of another person
    anymore. Directory assistance is
    almost always fully automated.
    Pumping gas at the station? Why
    say good-morning to the attendant
    when you can swipe your credit
    card at the pump and save yourself
    the bother of human contact?
    Making a deposit at the bank? Why
    talk to a clerk who might live in the
    neighborhood when you can just
    insert your card into the ATM?
    Pretty soon you won’t have the
    burden of making eye contact at
    the grocery store. Some
    supermarket chains are using a
    self-scanner so you can check
    yourself out, avoiding those
    annoying clerks who look at you
    and ask how you are doing.
    I am no Luddite. I own a cell
    phone, an ATM card, a voice-mail
    system, an e-mail account. Giving
    them up isn’t an option–they’re
    great for what they’re intended to
    do. It’s their unintended
    consequences that make me
    cringe.
    More and more, I find myself
    hiding behind e-mail to do a job
    meant for conversation. Or being
    relieved that voice mail picked up
    because I didn’t really have time to
    talk. The industry devoted to
    helping me keep in touch is making
    me lonelier–or at least facilitating
    my antisocial instincts.
    restriction: no instant messaging with
    people
    who live near me, no cell-phoning in
    the
    presence of friends, no letting the
    voice mail
    pick up when I’m home.
    What good is all this gee-whiz
    technology
    if there’s no one in the room to hear
    you
    SUMMARY➡
    The text For Conversation,
    Press # 1, expresses the
    writers thoughts on the
    effects of online connectivity
    and the advent of technology
    in general.
    In the text, the writer recounted
    his own experience of being
    ignored when a friend he was
    jogging with suddenly received a
    call. He mentioned that he also
    saw that most people in the park
    were not talking to each other but
    instead were engrossed in their
    gadgets
    In the subsequent
    paragraphs, he stated the
    reasons why this is not
    right. He also provided
    solutions to his dilemma.
    Reflection about
    for conversation
    press #1
    Being a person who enjoys talking
    to random people whenever I get
    the chance, I feel sad because
    whenever I am in a queue waiting
    in line, everyone seems to be
    avoiding real conversations but
    instead focus too much or at least
    pretend to watch movies, listen to
    music, and browse the internet
    Technology is has
    revolutionized the way
    people communicate but it
    should be a reason for
    developing real and not
    virtual relations.
    Yes, like the author in the
    text, We enjoy and benefit
    from using gadgets and
    devices too but we also need
    to talk to strangers
    sometimes for good
    interaction. How ironic that
    people are more connected

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