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Social media addiction: Many people believe that social networking sites such as Facebook have a negative impact on both individuals and society. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

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Nowadays, more and more
people
 have a big amount of accounts in social
medias
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media
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 like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube etc.
However
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 does it make any impact on our society? First of
all
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,all
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 let's begin with the positive view on that question. Social apps give us an opportunity to contact
with
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people
,
businesess
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businesses
,
companies
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and companies
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 around the world. It
also
 allows us to earn money and spend our free time checking
the
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instagram
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Instagram
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 etc. . We can have fun doing that so many times per day and it's not annoying for us.
However
, there are more things to consider on the
over hand
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.
Fistly
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First
, a big amount of
people
 in
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modern times have social services addiction. Society can't live without notifications on their phones, they
fell
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feel
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badly
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, if there is no new message sound on their phones. To add to
this
 notifications don't allow us to concentrate and enter the "Hyperfocus" mode, which is essential for our brains to work. The next thing to mention
,
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 is the envy
to
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 other
people
. When
user
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a user
the user
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 sees
someones
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 photo in an expensive car he wants it too, and
also
 he has too much anger
on
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about
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 a person in
good
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a good
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 car, because
user
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the user
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 thinks: "Why he has it, but I don't?".
As a result
people
 slowly are becoming angry, as we know anger leads to
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depression, anxiety and so on.
Moreover
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 social
medias
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media
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 are
oftenly
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often
 lying to us
,
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 because
an
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everyone can make a photo
in
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 Lamborghini, but it
doesn's
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doesn't
 mean that an individual owns that car.
Besides
this
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 the
last
, but not least is the thing that social
medias
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media
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 are wasting our time, if we do not use them properly and efficiently.
For
instance
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then
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when
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 we are listing TikTok we forget to make some useful
thing
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 for us, for
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 exercise or
learn
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 some new skills. In conclusion, in my point of view, social websites have more negative
impact
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 on our society, than
the
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good
one
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ones
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. They
also
missconcentrate
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miss-concentrate
 us,
oftenly
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often
 lying to us and
lead
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leading
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ourselves
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us
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 on the way of anxiety anger and depression, which slowly are killing us.
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