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With a great variety of social networking websites, people often add complete strangers to their friend lists. Do you think that this tendency helps people to find new friends or is it just a mean to increase their self-esteem? Justify your opinion with relevant examples.

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The line graph illustrates the average amount of
expenditure
 made on
a
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cell
phones
 and the residential
phone
services
 in the period of ten years from 2001 to 2010. The units are measured in dollars. Overall, the average
expenditure
 made on residential
phones
 is outnumbered by the
cell
phone
services
 after the initial six years, resulting in more users for
cell
phones
 compared to landline
phones
. The amount spent on residential
phones
 was around 700 in the year 2001 with a gradual decline from 2001 to 2006 from $700 to around $550, it reached the breakeven point with a cellphone. Later, the
expenditure
 fell to the lowest number of $400 by the end of 2010. In regards to
cellphone
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,
although
 at the beginning of the year 2001 the
expenditure
 on cellphones was as low as $200 compared to a residential
phone
, which was more than 50% of the
expenditure
 made on
cell
phone
services
 during that period,
although
 with a rising demand of the cellphone
services
 the cost rose sharply from $200 to 700$ within the period of 10 years.
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