Nowadays the way many people interact with each other has changed because of technology. In what ways has the technology affected the types of relationships people make? Has it become a positive or negative development?

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day, technology is part of our everyday life and it becomes a way to establish new interactions, not only thanks to new devices, but mainly with the establishment of social network sites. In
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perspective, technology allows us to make contact with people of different culture and it can be used,
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, to learn a new language, in fact you only have to find the right chat group or site and you can practice with a native speaker. Technology
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helps people to keep alive long distance relationships with their friends who went abroad or with faraway relatives or with lost companion of the past.
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computer usage is a positive one, because it helps people not to lose something they build up through their life. On the negative side, social networks are often used to start a relationship. Nowadays there are many adolescents that grew up with technologies that became part of their life too early and in many cases have been used to build up relationships online.
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is due not to the way they began, but because many people of the new generations are not able to build and maintain relationships. Overall, I think that technology in giving us devices to communicate and in creating social
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Interact
  • Social media platforms
  • Networking
  • Instant messaging
  • Face-to-face interaction
  • Misunderstandings
  • Emotional context
  • Superficial connections
  • Deceptive identities
  • Privacy concerns
  • Social skills
  • Video calls
  • Online presence
  • Digital communication
  • Cyber relationships
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