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?

It is widely claimed that interaction by

person

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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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this

tendency has great possibilities to happen.

To begin

with, I am of the belief that

this

rampant trend plagues our society and especially the younger generation. Kids are growing up socializing through social media

instead

of playing on the streets as we used to do a few years ago. Social media are

also

addictive

as a result

, these kids are

depended

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on

this

way of communicating. A clear illustration of

this

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.

In addition

, many kids prefer to socialize via the Internet as they found it much easier and

convenient

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than interacting by

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a person

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.

For example

, many of those children have the opportunity to meet a new friend on the Internet by playing video games or just by

follow

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someone on Instagram,

then

they text each other and if they share

same

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interests may build a strong friendship. But

this

can lead them to be more antisocial in real life because

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this

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

this

issue.

Otherwise

, face-to-face communication will be eliminated.