With the development of online communication, people will never be alone and will always be able to make new friends. To what extent do you agree?

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I believe that even though the
internet
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has made communicating
easy
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easily
we remain lonely and it is getting harder to befriend people.
Firstly
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,
this
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essay will look at why we can’t
trust
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and befriend everybody online and secondary, I will explain how the
internet
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has failed to connect people. The crux of any relationship is
trust
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, and unfortunately trusting everybody online is naïve to a fault. The anonymity afforded by the
internet
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has made it all too easy for anybody to create a fictitious identity, one might argue that there are checks and
balances but,
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balances, but
these are far from being foolproof. Using image editing software, a person with basic computer skills can forge almost any document, it is little wonder, our news feeds are peppered with numerous accounts of online fraud and identity theft. Almost
everyone
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who has an email address will be familiar with the “Nigerian prince email”. I do not advocate that
everyone
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online is committing fraud, but we cannot blindly
trust
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everyone
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on the World Wide Web
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, it is presumptuous to assume that the
internet
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has reached
everyone
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. Many developing countries still struggle with necessities, let alone have an uninterrupted supply of electricity. Having
internet
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access is considered a luxury.
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, the majority of people from rural areas are not computer literate and will be unable to use the
internet
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even if they have access. It would be foolhardy to assume that ‘
everyone
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’ is connected to the
internet
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as can be seen with people live in rural India. In conclusion, owing to a lack of
trust
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we remain
skeptical
denying or questioning the tenets of especially a religion
sceptical
of the people that we
have met
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had met
online these connections are mere
acquaintances not
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acquaintances, not
‘friends’, to compound matters the access to the
internet
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is not universal. I
thus
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entirely disagree with the statement
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • connectivity
  • geographical gaps
  • interact
  • social media platforms
  • messaging apps
  • revolutionized
  • physical distance
  • online communities
  • camaraderie
  • immediate surroundings
  • unparalleled opportunities
  • superficial relationships
  • excessive reliance
  • emotional warmth
  • tactile comfort
  • digital communication
  • digital divide
  • internet censorship
  • global connectivity
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