What’s wrong with conversation? One eighteen-year-old reflected what many others felt when she said, “I’ll tell you what’s wrong with conversation, it takes place in real time, and you can’t control what you’re going to say.” Turkle was dumbfounded. That’s exactly what she thought was right with conversation. “What’s with us that we’ve gotten afraid of revealing ourselves to each other in the spontaneity of face-to-face talk?” she asked. Texting and messaging afford us the ability to edit ourselves and present what we imagine is a more “perfect” version of ourselves, Turkle explained.
