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Some people believe that technology such as mobile phones has destroyed social interaction. Do you agree or disagree?

#people #technology #phones #interaction
In nowadays,
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smart
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smartphones
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phones
 have become ubiquitous and
people
 are so engrossed in them that they are cut off from their surroundings.
That is
 why some public
hold
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 the view that these gadgets have had an adverse effect on social
interaction
.
However
, I disagree with
this
 notion. A number of arguments surround my opinion. My
first
 argument is that mobile
phones
 have not destroyed social
interaction
, they have merely changed the way
people
 interact with each other. Now
people
 don't meet each other
face
 to
face
, they are connected to each other through
this
 marvel of technology. Various apps are there through which
people
 are connected even with long lost friends, and not just those in their propinquity.
For example
, my aunt met her old college friend, with whom she had lost contact 20 years ago, on
a
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Facebook, and now they are constantly exchanging
message
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messages
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 with each other and new contact
number
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also
.
Secondly
, social communication has enhanced a lot because of these cell
phones
. Today's youngsters have the largest social network that ever in the history of
the
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mankind.
People
 can make friends with others of similar interests anywhere in the world.
For example
, if a person is interested in knitting, he can find a group of
people
 who love knitting and join that group and share patterns with each other. Undoubtedly,
face
 to
face
 communication has come down, but
that is
 not because of these cell
phones
. It is
the
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fast paced
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 lifestyle in modern
time
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times
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. Over the
last
half century
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,
people
's lifestyles have changed beyond their wildest expectations, and so they have become workaholics.
This
 is the main reason for the loss of
the
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social
communicates
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.
The mobile
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phones
 only help the public stay interconnected in today's time. To sum up, cell
phones
 have not lessened social
interaction
, they have merely changed the way of
interaction
, and they have in many ways increased the social network of the
people
.
Submitted by Arun Saini on

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