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Many people believe that social networking sites (such as Facebook) have had a huge negative impact on both individuals and society. To what extent do you agree?

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Nowadays, being on social media has become a trend. Whether to
use
 it for communication, to
use
 it to show off their vacation photos and getting
likes
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the likes
 on their videos or simply for entertainment. Because of perpetual
use
 of social media, people have started believing that it has a huge negative impact on our lives. It is a debatable
statement but
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statement, but
 I somewhat agree to
this
. The incessant
use
 of social media has started hampering our daily lifestyle. Every hour people have the addiction to check their social accounts as they feel they need to be updated every time. Every notification reminds them about their social media accounts and get easily distracted from their daily work. People have started forgetting that these networking sites are actually making them away from the real world. Kids prefer
being
the act of buying
buying
 online on these apps
instead
 of playing outside. The addiction of social networking sites is seen so much these days that people have forgotten that in some way or the other it is affecting their health as well. The rate of depression among the youngsters is shooting these days because of the same. They have started accepting it as fact that these platforms are made for judging on the basis of number of likes and comments on their photos, resulting to feel underestimated about themselves. Excess
use
 of Facebook, Instagram,
etc
continuing in the same way
etc.
its
such
 accounts
have had
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has had
 a huge negative impact our lives. It has its own benefits, but the drawbacks our easily visible. In my opinion any app or
such
 platform we
use
 has its own
advantages but
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advantages, but
 the excess
use
 of
such
 networking sites can definitely affect our
life
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lives
.
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