While reading the blog posts before me, I noticed that a lot of people discussed the increase of technology in the society in Super Sad True Love Story, and I completely agree with these posts. The reliance on technology in this new, dystopian society definitely reflects aspects of our own society. While I believe that technology is beneficial in our society and has many advantageous uses, I also believe it hinders our human interactions that are so important and vital in human society. With the increase of facebook, text messages, gmail etc. comes the decrease of face to face contact. I believe that face to face communication, or even phone calls, are very important and if our society comes to the level of reliance of technology in Super Sad True Love Story, we are going to lose something vital. For example, instead of calling her mom or younger sister on the telephone, Eunice relies on emails and text messages. She loses human emotion by only communicating across a screen and could benefit by talking to them on the phone. She can ask questions and hear the answer right away and can even detect inflection to notice if her sister is doing well or not, a struggle she is dealing with in Rome. Another example is when Lenny FAC’s on the radio show. The whole system of FAC completely diminishes our concept of human interaction. In our world today we see the increase of matchmaking sites which echo this idea of online profiling to find a relationship. While it may help people in the end, it also skips the human communication portion. There is less talking in person and getting to know one another before either accepting or rejecting them as a possible partner. The FAC system gives the user statistics on whether or not they would be compatible, just as matchmaking sites do today. By doing this, we lose the concept of learning communication skills and also possibly learning about ourselves through these processes. While we may not end up with said person, we learn through mistakes, which make us more human than any technology site can do. By relying solely on technology we lose the portion of human, face to face contact our society is built and relies on. Overall, while in our society today we have many beneficial uses for technology, Super Sad True Love Story demonstrates what our world could come to if we do not balance said technology and important human characteristics such as face to face communication.