Nowadays the way many people interact with each other has changed because of technology. In what ways has technology affected the types of relationships people make? Has this become a positive or negative development?

With the advancements in
the
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technology
, many
people
have changed their methods of interacting with other individuals.
This
essay is to discuss how
technology
has affected
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people
's
relationships
and its negative impacts. Innovations and improvements in
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technology
affected
people
's
relationships
in both positive and negative ways, especially in terms of communication. As a negative impact, many individuals do not meet others in person nowadays, because of the availability of different tools and applications. For an instance,
people
meet via social media applications.
On the other hand
, these applications positively support
to communicate
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with
people
who are
in
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longer distances.
For example
, it is much easier and faster to communicate with a person from anywhere in the world.
However
, many negative results have developed because of the improvements in
technology
. One of those negative
impact
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is
,
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scams and threats
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the internet.
In other words
, there are many folks who build
relationships
with others in order to scam or
threat
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them.
For example
, recently FBI did
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research about scammers and found out that the number of crimes related to scamming increased in the
last
decade
due to
social media. Some of those incidents
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resulted
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serious
damages
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to several
people
.
Also
, another negative development is
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privacy and trust issues. In the past,
people
used to talk to each other in person which build their trust and privacy. But nowadays, many folks especially adolescents tend to build
relationships
with
people
that they have never seen.
As a result
, they get cheated and abandoned causing various problems.
For example
, a teenage girl in India
suicided
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after finding out that her boyfriend was cheating on her with a fake profile.
To conclude
,
technology
has
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negatively
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on
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people
's
relationships
nowadays significantly and it is a controversial topic to discuss.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • technology
  • interact
  • relationships
  • connectivity
  • communication
  • online
  • face-to-face
  • friendships
  • romantic relationships
  • family dynamics
  • positive
  • negative
  • development
  • effects
  • formation
  • ease
  • impacts
  • communities
  • connect
  • interaction
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