Nowadays, more people are choosing to socialise online rather than face to face. Is this a positive or negative development?

In the twenty-first century, the internet is changing the way that

people

socialise. Where we used to talk face-to-face, now we tend to use different types of technology to communicate.

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essay will argue that it is a positive

development

. The first reason why

this

is positive is that humans have always adapted in order to communicate more efficiently. In fact, our ability to communicate well has led us to be the most sophisticated and powerful animal on the planet. We have developed thousands of complex languages,

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learned to write them down, and in the

last

few hundred years we have discovered printing and telephones. Now that we have the internet, our communication skills are becoming even greater as a species, and it is hard to see why that could be a negative

development

.

Furthermore

, the internet has allowed

people

from all over the world to interact with each other. Rather than

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only with our immediate friends and family, or our social or national group, we can now speak with

people

from anywhere, and

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communication is instant.

This

allows us to break down traditional cultural barriers and will hopefully lead to a worldwide decline in prejudice and hatred.

This

is an unprecedented

development

in world history

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and one that I think is going to make largely positive changes for all humankind. In conclusion, the switch from face-to-face to online communication is not a negative

development

in human history;

instead

, it allows us to communicate better and interact with other

people

from different backgrounds.