Round 2
The question “Why is it that we feel a relationship with the things we use everyday? If this is true, how do you define a relationship? ” was raised on a Wiki retrieved from
http://sherwoodweb.org/wiki/index.php/TurkleMeyer_Questions
I would have to say that people feel there is a relationship toward the things they use everyday because they become familiar and comfortable with these things, even inanimate objects. They come to trust these things as if they were dependent on them to function in their everyday lives, like they could not go through their day without using these objects. They become familiar with these things like they would with any human, knowing how they work, what they do, and knowing that they are reliable, just like someone would know a friend in a sense.
I think in this way a relationship could be defined by they degree of how much a person trusts and depends on something and knows it well enough to know it will be reliable and loyal to them.