In Turkle’s writing of the “Empathy Diaries”, the concept of only showing best oneself to the public thru social media. The whole idea of being able to “edit our responses to get them ‘right’”. So we can review and edit our errors before anyone even knows that a mistake was made. All the decisions made are depending on the type of audience that is following

Postman argues the negatives for technology as much as Turkle does but Turkle experiences the changes that access to social media has had on the public's ability to communicate, empathize and discover oneself. Postman uses past inventions in history and their consequences as evidence while Turkle relays what she has seen in interviews with kids and college students and how they act towards one another.

The different apps being invented each with the latest technology made to make the user feel more connected to other users.

Considering that in Turkle's time social media had already made its debut and the youth had already showed signs of dependency there are going to be more quotes from Turkle than Postman. In Postman’s speech on 1998 computers

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My feminist and pop culture has noticed how some advertising commercials try to advertise a feminist positive commercial for the product. Like the commercial “like a girl”, no one remembers the product they were trying to sell but the topic being presented made the commercial go viral on social media. If advertised right the video only has to be shown in a few online videos and TV commercials and the video will spread throughout the web on different sights like a virus. It's like a double edged sword though cause if done incorrectly the viewers will be greatly offended and the brand will go viral but in a negative way. Then all those associated with the brand try to save their reputations by denouncing the