Some people think that excessive use of smartphones badly affects teenagers' literacy skills. Do you agree or disagree?

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Nowadays mobile phones got
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main role in our day-to-day life. Especially,
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generation
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who keep using
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tend
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to feel more problems
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their
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when they need to write something without the help of their
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. Some folk see
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no issue of
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, but
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approach
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literacy
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. Let's see
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both sides and conclude with
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a reasonable
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outcome. I was part of
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educational background where
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were not our main way of communication, so it was long emails or letters and that's how I was really under pressure to write without mistakes or having them as less as possible. But even
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times
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at university I started to notice that
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generation
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did not put a lot of focus
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literacy
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.
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point of view was
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on
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point as simple as it's possible. But these days I see that my younger employees are focused less and less on grammar or the way their message sounds, and it's starting to be a problem even for
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me
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as I need to
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all the time. So, from my personal
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I feel that
smartphones
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are leading to
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issues for teenagers, but at the same
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the perception of receivers
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changed a lot. Nowadays I can observe how big-name magazines can skip some typos and mistakes in their
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communication
. To sum up, we as
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generation
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need to find out the best possible way to impact
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generation
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in terms of improving their
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through the same
smartphones
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. Leading developers should focus more on
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introducing
applications which
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support
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thinking.
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