Modern forms of communication such as email and messaging have reduced the amount of time people spend seeing their friends. This has had a negative effect on their social lives. To what extent do you agree or disagree? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

Information

technology

has changed the way we communicate,

such

that it is often thought to reduce the time that people allocate to be with their friends. While some consider that

this

advancement has only damaged their social life, in my view, modern ways of

communication

has

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have

benefits that outweigh the cost. Compared to before,

technology

has never been more integrated to the way humans interact with each other. It has gotten to a whole new level where it allows people to communicate without leaving their houses., which was the main form of social

interaction

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interaction, besides

besides

writing mails.

Therefore

, it is understandable that

laypeople

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lay people

are worried that

this

ease of

communication

might jeopardise their social lives. After all, meeting people in real life deliver lots of non-literal aspects of human interaction, which are unquestionably essential and sometimes hindered by social

medias

a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information

media

.

However

, the advantages offered by non-conventional

communication

forms are often overlooked when people only focus to the negative impacts. Some decades ago, it would be just a daydream to talk in real time with someone who lived

in

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on

the other side of the earth.

Furthermore

, not only people can interact with other humans from far away, they can now socialise with new people they

have not known

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did not know

didn't know

before as easily as they do with their best friends. Other perks can be seen in a larger picture,

for example

, it is now just some clicks away to gather mass participations for social causes that help those in needs. All of these would not have happened had it not because of progressive

technology

of modern

communication

. To summarise, today’s forms of human interaction may cause some

disadvantages especially

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disadvantages, especially

to social aspects.

Nevertheless

, they

also

carry lots of advantages that surpass the negative effects. Information

technology

wields a great power for enhancing human’s social life that has to be

harnesses

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harnessed

carefully in order to bring out the best of it.