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Some people believe that social media sites, such as Facebook or Twitter, have a negative impact on young people and their ability to form personal relationships. Others believe that these sites bring people together in a beneficial way. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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It is controversial whether social media have a detrimental impact on the youth and their formation of relationships personally or it makes
people
 closer in the flourishing aspect, I think it harmed them in three aspects.
Firstly
, social media have reduced the
time
 young
people
 used to hang out with their peers, according to statistics
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,
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for example
, the youth used to spend more
time
 outside their homes before 2007, while after 2007 with the opening of the Facebook platform
this
time
 has continuously reduced year after year and
this
 resulted in increasing numbers of young
people
 who adopt sedentary lifestyle nowadays.
Secondly
,
people
 become more reliant on what they read online about each other to make a complete figure of the personalities of their online mutual friends, but
this
 is completely wrong as
people
 tend to show the best sides of themselves online. it is very difficult to judge those
people
 from their online pages,
people
 should have many meetings with each other to realize all the hidden aspects of other
people
's personalities.
thirdly
,
people
 started having online relationships that end up many times by meeting the wrong
people
 who used fake photos and IDs to manipulate youth to fall on their webs. in conclusion, young
people
 nowadays should have a kind of education from their parents and from school to have a balance between the
time
 they spend online and the
time
 they spend hanging out and meeting
people
 in person to get the skills that would protect them from judging others wrongly from their online written stories and to teach them how to make sure
people
 they have relationships with them online are the real
people
 whom they think they are.
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