Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.

Because you can text while doing something else, texting does not seem to take time but to give you time. This is more than welcome; it is magical.

Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of the people [they're] with and this other reality.

These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.

What technology makes easy is not always what nurtures the human spirit.

The feeling that 'no one is listening to me' make us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.

If you're happy with where the Internet, Facebook, and Twitter have taken you, I'm not the Grinch. Someone called me Sherry Turkle's "evil Luddite twin." I'm not that. I enjoy the bounties of this technology. But if you fear that your connected life is running away with you, read the book, reflect, talk to your family and friends. I think we deserve better than some of the places that we've gotten with this technology.