Information technology is changing many aspects of our lives and now dominates our home, leisure and work activities. To what extent do the benefits of information technology outweigh the disadvantages?

Mankind's lives have evolved irreversibly in many ways and became dependent
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computer technologies in all major platforms that he/she exists.
Although
the negative aspects of
this
technology can not be overlooked,
this
technology has brought our lives huge ease to a great extent. In my view, overall its merits
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its drawbacks. In terms of demerits of the era of
information
, the
first
thing that should be mentioned is the real human interaction, which has become redundant to some extent because of social media and other informative platforms. As the psychologists and psychiatrists
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, the monitors could not
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the need for face to face connection.
Moreover
, because of the other side effects of technology
such
as fastening
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human life,
this
need has increased even more for sustaining
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healthy psychology. The other major negative aspect is the increase in unemployment rates. Since many
of
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people had
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their jobs to
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software systems, it is much more
diificult
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difficult
for one to land a job. Regarding the positive sides of
information
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era, the
first
and the foremost aspect is the diminished
unequality
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inequality
of opportunities in education between social levels. Since the
information
is just one click far away,
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much easier to learn regardless of the subject type
such
as language, math, chemistry or history. The other merit that should have mentioned is the accessibility of the services
such
as booking a hospital appointment or making transactions between bank accounts or reaching the
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news about public services.
Furthermore
one can reach public authorities by using platforms
such
as
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and let them be aware of the
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updated problems and
therefore
make solutions in the proper time. To conclude, when the reasons mentioned above
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thought, it can be easily seen some demerits could be diminished the way of using the
information
systems. The benefits, which can not be achieved with some other platform,
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the drawbacks overall.
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Answer the 'Advantages and Disadvantages' topic

IELTS advantages and disadvantages questions normally give you a statement and ask you to comment on the advantages and disadvantages of that statement.

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  • Introduction
  • Body paragraph 1 – advantages
  • Body paragraph 2 – disadvantages
  • Conclusion

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