Young people spend less of their free time with their family nowadays. What are the reasons for this? Are there more negative or positive sides?

More and

more younger

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younger

members of society are allocating less of their spare

time

on their family today than they did in the past. While there are some causes which engender

this

trend, I personally believe that it does more harm than good. There are two basic reasons which bring about

this

tendency.

Firstly

, because the technology and the internet have greatly advanced, many young people tend to spend quite a large amount of

time

by going online. Most want to make new, virtual friends; have fun on online social networking websites,

for example

.

Consequently

, having been exposed to

this

way of life, these people might feel reluctant to spend quality

time

with their family members. Yet another cause of

such

attitude can be explained

with

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by

increased competition in the world today. As it has become rather tough for people to excel in, say, education and work, they are likely to be ready to sacrifice their family

time

to work harder and go the extra mile to achieve more.

However

, I am of the opinion that spending less

time

with family members is utterly negative. I do concede the only positive aspect of

this

, which can be

better fulfilment

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a better fulfilment

of people’s materialistic needs.

This

is because they are pushing themselves more to work and earn to meet their needs, compromising their family.

Nevertheless

, by doing so, they are communicating less frequently with their family.

As a result

, the chances of having damaged relationships within a family are high and

this

could potentially lead to a breakdown. In conclusion, the reasons why many young people spend less of their free

time

with their family mainly have to do with technology and modern ways of life. In my opinion, the merits of

such

tendency are outweighed by its merits for the reasons mentioned above.