Connor Zielaznicki NOT FOR TECH AND WAR
Technology advances everyday and human's are adjusting to it quite strangley. This is quite an amazing video about technology and empathy. It is a TEDx talk by Jaquelin Quinones that gives a great insight to the question at hand. Does technology reall kill empathy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOhXJPO7PjE
This video was really interesting. I felt that it was very accurate when she said, "if we're unaware of our emotional ecosystems, where we lie on the spectrum, and how to achieve balance - empathy can work in reverse."
ReplyDeleteSocial media feeds the narcissism that shadows empathy. Currently, social media has very few benefits, and it would be pivotal to reinvent social media to inspire empathy. We should use personal interactions (phone calls, direct messages), rather than hitting like or sending an emjoi to express a feeling. We are spoon-fed an obsession with other people's lives, and I don't think people have really realized that that has happened. Like the Theory of Progress, that we learned about in class, I believe that humans are inherently good. We have natural altruistic characteristics, however I think that through personal experiences (and social media), we tend to lose a sense of empathy. I think it's horrible.
This Ted Talk was very accurate on explaining the relationship between technology and empathy. Empathy is the ability to understand and share feelings with eachother. Quinone mentions "The accelerated innovation of new technologies, proliferation of social media, and ease and convenience of superficial communication led her to question, “Is technology killing our empathy?”. In her Ted talk she mentions how today's society is not balanced and people do not feel for eachother.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion, social media is destroying empathy. Constantly there are posts of rude, embarrassing and inappropriate of videos that affected someone. However, these posts are receiving thousands of shares and uncontrollable laughter. With social media and new technology, our generation is losing a sense of empathy and it needs to change.