Modern communications mean that it's no longer necessary to write letters. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?

The ways of

communication

have been altered drastically in the past few decades,

instead

of writing handwritten letters which would take days to reach the destination, now we can send a message in just a matter of seconds. Be it formal or informal the means of

communication

has been modernised to save time, efforts and cost. I am a strong supporter of the advanced

communication

methods and would like to delineate its pros and cons in

this

essay. For centuries we have been trying to improve the way we share information and today we are in a place where we can say conveying a particular message has more ways than the clothes in our closet,

this

helps us in many more ways than we can image. Recently a statistic provided by Cambridge University yielded that in the

last

decade the admits of international students have risen substantially, owing to the new admission methodology they have adopted

such

as scoring the students based on a questionnaire shared to their reference rather than sending a reference letter of a particular format. Students are no longer judged based on pre-defined templates rather based on the merit in the factors the university cares for. We all can still send letters via emails, but that always leaves us more inclined to express our needs which may get in a way of judging based on the real cause. Questionnaires, surveys, feedbacks and may more ways have been ingrained in our lives to cater us better. Today, if we want a new connection of any service, we don't have to send a letter without details and

then

follow the chain of emails, rather we can just fill out an online form, that's it resolving our issues in an efficient manner. Not only

this

reduces the

communication

noise that we need to follow, but

also

simplifies the process,

also

complementing us with an option to provide feedbacks in a matter of minutes so that we can be catered well in future. In conclusion, I would like to say, we still might write letters for various reasons, but modern

communication

has provided us with better arms to deal with different scenarios in an efficient manner rather than a monolithic approach to it.