Are technology and media losing the very fabric of the existence we have known? As technology and media expand their influence, the debate over the inherent advantages and disadvantages intensifies. Although opinions vary widely on the subject, two authors share similar views: Professor Sherry Turkle, director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and the Self, in her article "Can You Hear Me Now" and Naomi Rockler-Gladen, who previously taught media studies at the University of Washington. Colorado State University, with his article “Me Against the Media: From the Trenches of a Media Lit Class.” Turkle asserts that technology has changed the way people develop and perceive themselves, while affecting their concepts of time management and concentration (270). Similarly, Rockler-Gladen believes that the media and the advertising inherent in it have had a profound effect on the values ​​and thinking of the public (284). I couldn't agree more with Professor Turkle and Ms. Rockler-Gladen; Effects technology and media have worried and irritated me for some time. The benefits of technology and media are undeniable, but so are their flaws. People start shifting their attention from the physical world to the virtual world as they find it easier and more comfortable. The intended purpose of technology and media was to be a tool to improve the quality of life, not chains that tether people to their devices. I no longer recognize this changed world and I long for the simple world of my youth. Turkle argues that technology has fundamentally changed the way people see themselves and their lives (271). She reports that “BlackBerry users describe feeling like the device is encroaching on their time. One says, “I don’t have enough time alone with my mind”; another: “I artificially take the time to think…”” (274). His argument is that people must make a deliberate choice to disconnect, to exist in their own minds rather than in the virtual world (Turkle 274). Another point Turkle makes is that in the technological age, children are not learning to be self-reliant. Without the experience of truly being alone and making their own decisions, children do not develop the skills they once developed (Turkle 274). As Turkle reports: “There was a time in an urban child's life, usually between the ages of 12 and 14, when it was his first time to move around the city alone. It was a rite of passage that communicated: "you are alone and responsible »..