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

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The technology has affected the way of communication among people nowadays. Modern means of communication are more easy to use and are quicker to deliver any sort of of
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message
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the message
. Both these factors are the main reasons for technology’s impact on various relationships. Presently, more than 50% of the world’s population
has
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have
access to mobile phones and
internet
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the internet
, so it has become really easy to call a person sitting 1000 miles away and deliver your
message
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directly. Before the introduction of the cell
phones people
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phones, people
used to deliver
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message
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messages
via
hand written
written by hand
handwritten
letters with the help of postal services. They had to buy a
letter
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paper, write their
message
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, put a stamp over the envelope and
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submit in the post office with an address, whereas today
one
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can easily dial a number and contact the other person directly, without even moving from a chair.
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, my uncle used to write letters to his wife and it used to take 3 to 4 hours
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for
him to post a
letter
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but now he simply video
chats
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chat
with his wife and sons.
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Along with
becoming easier, it has now become quicker to deliver a
message
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or a gift. In the mid 90’s, it used to take 3 to 4 days to deliver a
message
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/
letter
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to the other end and during
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period of 2 to 3 days situations could change without anyone knowing what’s going on on the other end, but nowadays it takes merely 2 minutes to convey a
message
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and make
other person
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other people
the other person
aware of the current situation at
one
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end.
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factor has helped a lot in clearing the misunderstandings among family members.
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, before people used to post
letter
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3 days before their beloved
one
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’s birthday and a gift
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at least
7 days
before but
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before, but
today
one
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waits for
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exactly
12 am midnight and wishes his beloved a birthday, so there are less chances
one
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could get late and
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there are less chances of being misunderstood. I strongly believe that the impact of technology on our daily
life relationships
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life, relationships
with our colleagues, family members and other people, is a positive
one
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.
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