People nowadays prefer to interact online (e.g. do shopping, chat with friends) rather than talking to other people face-to-face. What are the reasons for this? Is this a positive or negative development? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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Recently, everything has been changed from the traditional way to online like shopping or chatting with friends

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of meeting people or communicating face to face. There are several reasons behind

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and as per my belief, it is a negative development, which leads to frauds, and hidden charges as well as isolation, and health issues.

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modern era, digitalization is on the fast pace and taking place of the classic way of shopping. Many people use Amazon, Noon, Alibaba, and eBay for their online shopping, most of them even purchase groceries from these websites. As per reports and complains at cyber-crime cell, frauds, fake products and extra or hidden charges cases have been increased drastically. In that case, people lose trust and gets frustrated as it is a great loss of money,

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and efforts.

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, online systems make people attached to the laptop or mobiles all the

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, even they are not meeting, chatting or playing games with their friends as before.

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kind of isolation affects their mental and physical health.

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, there are record numbers of cases in the South Asian countries that several teenagers died or became mentally ill due to addiction to the online game called PUBG. Playing sports can keep individuals physically fit and away from

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stressful isolation.

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, a lot of positive trends are

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there, as online shopping saves your

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, and chatting with a friend can be quicker and easier. As an example, my friend bought PS5 game online from the USA after getting a review from a local friend there and delivered to Pakistan, which saves them money and

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both. In conclusion, preferences of the people changed from

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as per need from the old way of talking to friends and shopping to digital or online platforms, that as both trends, but negative weighs out to the positive.

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Overall Band Score

Coherence and Cohesion: 6.0

Logical structure

Introduction & conclusion present

Supported main points

Accurate linking words

Variety in linking words

Lexical resource: 7.0

Varied vocabulary

Accurate spelling & word formation

Grammatical Range: 9.0

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Task Achievement: 5.5

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