In a 2012 TED Talk, Sherry Turkle, a college professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studies the relationships between people and technology, said that social media provides "the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship." She laments that our obsession with technology is causing us to lose the "raw, human part of being with each other," and adds, "Our little devices are so psychologically powerful that they don't only change what we do, they change who we are… I share, therefore I am.