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Nowadays families are not as close as they used to be. What do you think are the causes of this? What can be done to make families closer?

#families
Everyone comes from
family
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 which is the closest person to
people
’s life. But it
seems
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 appear some changes
of
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 the distance between
families
 recently. As far as I
concerned
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, there are some reasons
making
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for making
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this
 phenomenon happen and the solution
of
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to
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this
 problem would be
easily
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 for everyone to
done
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do
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. With the rapid development of technology,
people
 spent more time on
electronic
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an electronic
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device
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devices
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 than before. In the past, there were not any
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smartphones
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smart phones
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smartphones
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 or tablets
appear
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appeared
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 on the dining table when the family was having a meal together. After those devices comes
to
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into
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human’s
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 life,
people
 used to have fun
from
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on
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 the phone rather than talking with parents or
families
. It totally contributes a huge effect
to
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 a family’s relationship. If
people
 do not
have
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any
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interact
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 in person
than
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then
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make
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making
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the connection
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connection
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connections
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between
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with
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 each other will become
a
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hard work.
On the other hand
, chatting on social media with
families
 would not obtain any emotion or feeling.
However
,
get
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getting
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 close
with
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to
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 family is not so hard for everyone with some fundamental methods.
Firstly
, hanging out with
families
 in
the
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their
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 free time
instead
 staying
of
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 and
play
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 video games.
Although
 those electronic devices are quite interesting,
but
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it is
hardly
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hard
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 to share with other
people
.
Secondly
,
make
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making
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 more
connection
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connections
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 between
families
 by
communicate
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communicating
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 will help a lot on known each other.
For example
, if
people
 have more
recognizes
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recognition
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of
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on
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one
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person
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the person
a person
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 that will know deeply and can get closer easily. To sum up, more and more
families
 have huge distance between each other. In my opinion, it was due to several
reason
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reasons
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 and it was
easily
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easy
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 to solve
up
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apply
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.
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