What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human meaning?

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

We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

Everything that enchants may be said to deceive.

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

We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy.

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.