People nowadays prefer to interact online (e.g. do shopping, chat with friends) rather than talking to other people face-to-face. What are the reasons for this? Is this a positive or negative development? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience. You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.

Thanks to technological advances, it has become more common to socialize, be in contact with other

people

, and even perform other activities on the Internet that used to include in-person interaction. Some reasons for

this

situation are the

time

reduction and the multiple options available online.

Therefore

, I personally consider that the positive aspects of

this

phenomenon overlook the negative ones.

Firstly

, the main reasons for the massive use of the

plataforms

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platforms

on the Internet include that these are less

time

consuming compared with the

time

required to do an activity in person.

For instance

, thanks to the immediate response

in

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websites, social media and others, young

people

prefer to chat with their friends and family through them than set a date with the other person, as the face-to-face encounter demands

time

in the process of getting ready, and even the transportation. Another reason is that heaps of businesses have preferred to use e-commerce,

then

it is possible to compare products or

services'

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services

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prices just with a click, and

then

take the best option.

Hence

, one of the most important positive aspects is that online communication has allowed to cut or decrease limits like frontiers and different

time

zones between

people

.

As a result

, communication has evolved into an easy process that can be performed in the comfort of homes, and in general anywhere and at any

time

.

However

, a negative aspect of

people

interacting less

in-person

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in person

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, is that those social and soft skills that used to

be develop

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during those

meeting

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meetings

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are having a downward trend. In general, the use of online platforms is replacing real-

time

meetings because

this

kind of interaction is more

time

-effective.

Besides

, among the positive aspects differences in

time

and

distances

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are reduced.

Nevertheless

, abilities that

were obtain

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were obtained

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during the face-to-face interaction are less prone to come to existence.