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Using social media as Facebook, Twitter is replacing face to face communication in this century. Do you think advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

#media #facebook #twitter #face #communication #century
There is no doubt that in
21st
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 century,
face to
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face
 conversations as a way to communicate is transforming into communicating over social
media
 platforms
such
 as Facebook or Twitter with some cons
such
 as less socialization and complex emotions and pros as affordability and being not affected by
distance
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 which I agree with the cons.
First
 and foremost, many people prefer to use social
media
 as a way to communicate which is why
face to
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face
 coffee meetings or dinner nights with friends transformed into online platforms.
Therefore
,
this
 trend would decrease the social ability of individuals due to the fact that
,
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 they can communicate without actually seeing each other in person. On
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top of that, it is hard to understand somebody’s real
emotions
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 messages and emojis
since
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 the absence of mimics which you could observe
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face
 to
face
.
However
, even if you could not understand
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messages, you can always use video calls to avoid these misunderstandings.
In addition
 to that,
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 the help of social
media
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 we can get in touch with loved ones across continents
instead
 of paying enormous prices to plane tickets in order to see missed ones which is what we had to do in the past.
Thus
, these platforms as
communicating
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 devices are cheaper since everybody
have
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 smartphones which are all you need to stay online, and they are even faster than
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planes. To conclude, in my opinion, the advantages of using social
media
instead
 of meeting in person to communicate, are greater than the drawbacks of
this
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