some people believe that smartphones are destroying social interaction today. to what extent do you agree or disagree

There is a common impression that

smartphones

are destroying social interaction in the current time. I fully agree with

this

statement and

this

essay will explain

further

with reasons.

Firstly

, the benefit of social communication can be experienced only by physical presence and

smartphones

encourage people to connect virtually. There is a sense of satisfaction by greeting a human being with a handshake and these devices are killing those emotions.

For example

, nowadays, childhood friends are preferring to send a smiley icon over their mobile devices rather than meeting each other physically.

Thus

,

this

culture of communication has made those friends move away from each other emotionally as they tend to forget each other faces over time. So, in

this

way smartphone applications have created distance even between close friends.

Secondly

, Social communication involves greeting people who are real and actually living in society but

smartphones

have allowed a single person to create multiple fake profiles and interact with others using a fake identity. While

this

happens rarely in the real world, it occurs frequently in virtual social networks with the use of

smartphones

.

For instance

, a watchman can deceive others by stating that he is a businessman and can convince them to give him a huge amount of money in the form of a loan using a fake profile in a smartphone. If he has to do the same cheating in the real world,

then

he would have live in an expensive flat and drive a costly car.

In other words

, he has to actually become a rich person and ask for

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oan in order to make others believe that he is making a genuine request.

However

,

this

is not the case in the virtual world, where he can download fake photos of buildings and cars to show others that he owns them.

Hence

,

smartphones

are providing a way to cheat in interactions and

this

would diminish the value of genuine interactions that were carried out with honesty over centuries. To conclude, social interaction has vastly lost its value due to the use of

smartphones

in the current time.

Therefore

, it is clear that

this

statement is true as the true identity of the participant can be hidden in

such

interactions.