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Nowadays, young people communicate with friends and family mostly through social networking sites, rather than other ways of communication like talking on the phone or face to face. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

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In the past few
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 social
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 websites and apps
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 as
Facebook
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 and Twitter have become hugely popular with the youth. While using these
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 has many benefits
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 as being efficient and enjoyable, they
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 have a few drawbacks which overall
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this
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 development a bad one. Using apps like
Facebook
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 and Twitter
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 a convenient and fun way to talk with
friends
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 and family members.
Instead
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 of phoning someone and hoping they aren’t busy, sending messages through these apps can be a better option as the person can receive the notification when they are free and respond in a timely manner.
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, most
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 are very busy these days so often can’t answer their
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 or meet
friends
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 for a coffee or
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face to
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face
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 chat. By using Twitter and similar
sites
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, we can still keep in touch with our
friends
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 often even if they are far away. These
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 are often enjoyable to use as well.
In addition
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 to chatting, we can send pictures, videos and funny messages to our
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friends
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, which strengthen friendship bonds and
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 lead to better relationships.
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, there are negative aspects of using social
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 as the main way to communicate and I believe these far outweigh the benefits mentioned above.
First
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, if we only chat using these
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 we can lose our ability to interact well with others
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 to
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.
This
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 can cause
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 to feel depressed, lonely and have mental issues as
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humans
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 are inherently social creatures who need more interaction than social
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sites
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 provide.
Furthermore
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, the type of interaction is not intimate. When we meet
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-to-
face
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, we can really feel the emotions of others and can connect strongly resulting in far stronger relationships.
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, via social
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 the interaction is far colder and can result in artificial relationships.
For instance
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, many
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 have 500 plus
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friends
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 but they don’t actually know these
people
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 well or ever meet them for a coffee or meal.
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, these types of
friends
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 and interactions are not sufficient and surely not
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 adequate replacement for
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face to
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face
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 meetings. In conclusion, while there are some benefits of social
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 as being convenient and fun to use, we should not ignore the drawback discussed above. I recommend that
people
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 make sure to communicate with their loved ones via the phone and in person not only via social
media
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sites
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 like
Facebook
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.

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