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In general, people do not have such a close relationship with their neighbours as they did in the past. Why is this so? Do you agree or disagree?

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Nowadays, most people spend a considerable amount of
time
 online. It was not true for the past generations as it was common for people to have barbeques and parties with their neighbours
next
 door.
As a result
 of the latest developments in the communication technology, people’s minds shifted from
offline real-life
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offline, real-life
 interactions with neighbours to online interactions with some random people they met online. The exact reasons of
this
 will be outlined in
this
 essay. Social media can be taken as a major factor for the above-mentioned changes. Popular social websites,
i
refers to the speaker or writer
I
.e., Facebook and Twitter, both have more than a billion users that visit the website daily. Most of those people are people who live their usual lives and chat online with people from all over the world. At the same
time
, in the previous centuries, people did not have an option to log in to Facebook and chat online,
therefore
, they spent
time
 with their friends from their present town and their neighbours. The aforementioned changes resulted in
growing number
Suggestion
a growing number
the growing number
growing numbers
 of people who do not even know their neighbours.
Moreover
, the development of telephones and
cellphones
Suggestion
cell phones
 exemplifies another reason of that shift. If
people
Suggestion
the people
 of the 19th century had an opportunity to send an SMS or call their friends from another part of the town,
the
people in general
they
 would
appparently
from appearances alone
apparently
done
Suggestion
does
do
 that.
However
, they did not have
such
 a great chance and had to spend most of their free
time
 with the people from the same city and neighbourhood. The present day people,
on the other hand
, can easily call a person from another country.
Thus
, the invention of
telephone
Suggestion
the telephone
 has greatly contributed to the described processes.
Consequently
,
nowaday
the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech
nowadays
people mostly
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people, mostly
 communicate through their
pesonal
concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality
personal
cellphones
Suggestion
cell phones
 or via social media. Normally, most people do not know their neighbours really well. I
pesonally
as yourself
personally
 agree that people do not have cordial relationship with their neighbours due to the reasons described in that essay.
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