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Some people believe that modern technology encourages more sociable behavior. Others say that this leads to lesser sociable behavior. Discuss both views with examples and provide your opinion.

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Not surprisingly, many aspects of people’s daily lives have undergone considerable changes because of the recent development in
technology
.
However
, there seems to be very little argument about the role of
technology
 in
human’s
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human
 social
behavior
manner of acting or controlling yourself
behaviour
 as a whole, and the extent to which it affects their
life
.
This
 essay intends to examine two prevailing views in the impact of
technology
 on social interaction, and reflect the author’s standpoint. The acceleration of the pace of
life
 implies the expansion of people’s social circle. In the past, social relationships were limited by physical factors
such
 as geographical distance and low mobility, but nowadays, one can travel
further
 and get acquainted with more people with those technological advances,
such
 as the railroad, the automobile and the telephone. For the purpose of illustration, consider the rapid penetration of telecommunications
technology
, has made the mobile phone a key social tool and people rely on their mobile phone address book to keep in touch with friends. Not only is technological achievements provide a context
in which bring people
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which brings people
in which brings people
 together, but it is
also
 to help them socialize and
fulfill
put in effect
fulfil
 their social needs. On the other, the point that should be considered is the highly addictive nature of these existing technologies. Having conducted a survey by some psychologists, they revealed that individual’s lives have been completely overshadowed by these media, leaving people with less time to interact with others.
This
, in turn, result in poor social
life
 and
feeling
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a feeling
the feeling
feelings
 of loneliness that are very often found among heavy users.
In
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At
During
 a birthday party or family reunion,
for example
, it is no longer weird to see most teenagers spending all the time taking pictures, editing their photos, sharing them
in
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on
 Facebook or Instagram and, worst of all, keep gazing into their mobile phone to see how many ‘
likes’
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like s’
 they have received. The main purpose of the occasion is completely lost here. It is
highly addictive aspect
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a highly addictive aspect
highly addictive aspects
 of technologies that many psychologists are concerned about, arguing that face to face human interaction is thoroughly victimized. To recapitulate, from my point of view, the prevalence of
technology
, despite the advantages, seems to have serious implications for one’s social
life
, bringing about destructive effects which are often beyond one’s anticipation.
Although
 it is of great value from
regular user’s perspective
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the regular user’s perspective
, people should step up efforts to minimize the negative effects.
Submitted by Mohammad NM on

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