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More and more people today are becoming overly dependent on the internet and phones. Is this a positive or negative development?

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Nowadays, a great number of people across the globe cannot imagine their lives without mobiles and the Internet. From my perspective,
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 these technological advances are one of the valuable inventions of the humankind, the excessive dependency on them may be considered as a disadvantage. The main reason for
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 is that uncontrolled usage of the global net leads to the Internet addiction and a person starts to spend a huge amount of
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 online forgetting about their duties and the life as a whole.
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, there are plenty of violent videos and negative information in it, which is constantly bombarding
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, many of them may develop depression, and suicidal rates will increase.
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, my younger brother used to binge-watch to the Game of Thrones series and after a while, he had become aggressive and moody. Somebody might argue that these technologies let people stay in touch for 24/7 and communicate instantly with any of remote places on the Earth.
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, it may create a false feeling of unity and inclusion into something bigger than a person is. Meanwhile, I think modern people need more quality
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 with somebody important for them. It should be face-to-face communication without any distraction by social media. To illustrate, being quite into social media myself, I realized that I miss that
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 when my friends and I did not have mobiles and spent a wonderful
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 together. In conclusion, being overly dependent on mobile and the Internet connection is a negative tendency because people become media addicted, more depressed and surprisingly, isolated from each other.
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