With an increasing population communicating via the Internet and text-messaging, face-to-face communication will become a thing of the past. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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It is widely claimed that interaction by
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will be reduced mainly because communication on social platforms are getting more popular over the years. From my point of
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tendency has great possibilities to happen.
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with, I am of the belief that
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rampant trend plagues our society and especially the younger generation. Kids are growing up socializing through social media
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of playing on the streets as we used to do a few years ago. Social media are
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addictive
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, these kids are
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on
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way of communicating. A clear illustration of
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could be said to be that, recent research carried out by two prominent psychologists at MIT university has shown that interacting through social platforms like Instagram, Facebook and Viber, increase the production of dopamine which results in addiction.
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, many kids prefer to socialize via the Internet as they found it much easier and
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than interacting by
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, many of those children have the opportunity to meet a new friend on the Internet by playing video games or just by
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someone on Instagram,
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they text each other and if they share
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interests may build a strong friendship. But
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can lead them to be more antisocial in real life because
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way they do not develop their social skills. To sum up, never before have we seen so many teenagers interacting through the Internet and it is urgent action be taken in order to stamp out
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issue.
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, face-to-face communication will be eliminated.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • face-to-face communication
  • digital means
  • non-verbal cues
  • body language
  • facial expressions
  • context and emotions
  • online communication
  • misunderstandings
  • immediate feedback
  • social connection
  • virtual reality
  • human element
  • confidentiality
  • augment
  • deeper personal connections
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