Sherry Turkle in her TED Talk “Connected, but alone?” discusses how technology is negatively impacting how we engage with others and how we view solitude. While she argues early on that “technology is taking us places we don’t want to go”, Turkle’s talk isn’t about giving up technology completely; rather that we need to be more self aware of our relationship with it and ourselves. She goes further to claim that technology is so “psychologically powerful” because it provides a constant companionship – a false empathy – but without the risks of intimacy. This controlled connection is always there and allows us to retouch, edit, and carefully plan out what we text, tweet, or post; thus giving us more control than traditional conversation. Turkle says that this is leading us as a society  to expect more from our smartphone than our friends as it appeals to us when we are vulnerable and lonely: “being alone is becoming viewed as a problem to be solved”. The TED talk is concluded with the idea that if we are never able to be alone, we will become more lonely; Turkle’s solution to this is issue is that we need to come to recognize our vulnerabilities and value solitude.