Nowadays, more people are choosing to socialize online than face to face, is this a positive or negative development?

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individuals prefer to connect with others through online social platforms, which I assume is a negative development.
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virtual interactions gives easy accessibility to personal information and increase the crime level by targeting vulnerable age group. First of all, people can easily be fooled by virtual friends. To expound, connecting to someone through social media makes
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for
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to hack personal information, particularly, one's bank details. There are many who got trapped by hackers and had to bear hefty financial
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, sometimes, they even lost their lifetime earnings.
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, in 2023, a
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in America lost her
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money just with a single click and by trusting a stranger who met her on
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website. Her only mistake was clicking on a link sent by her online friend.
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abovementioned incident vividly
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the negative effects of socializing online.
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trend puts the lives of younger children at stake. They are the easy targets of online offenders, where they can access children's online contact
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and pretend to be someone known
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them.
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, minors got trapped promptly just after exchanging their photographs
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put them in trouble. Illustrating
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more, recently a child got trapped just by accepting a friend request from a fake profile. A person pretended to be
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friend, but in reality was a sexual predator , called an innocent child to rape before killing her.
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mishappening persuades the community to believe that online social sites are unsafe ,
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more troubles. In conclusion, the trend of online socializing attracts crime and specifically affects
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adolescents by snatching their innocence.
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Ensure that you fully address the prompt by discussing both the positive and negative aspects of socializing online. Provide a balanced view in your response to the question.

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