The use of social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, is replacing face-to-face contact in this century. Do you think the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?

Some
people
think that professional
athletes
serve as positive
role
models
for young
people
and some
people
think that they serve as negative
role
models
. I will talk about two opinions and
then
I make a conclusion.
First
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opinion
is that professional
athletes
serve as positive
role
models
for young
people
. If we omit overwork, injury and stress,
then
of course we can say that they serve as positive
role
models
.
Sport
is a good thing for health, you improve your body,
improve
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and improve
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health of some
your
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of your
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organs and professional
athletes
shows
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that you can do it. You
also
can take part in competitions, win
the
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prizes and be strong and fast, but it is not
only
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the only
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reason why
sport
is good for you. Some
people
use
sport
as a thing that can relieve stress. They
don’t
take part in competitions, they
don’t
compete with someone. They do
sport
just
for
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to
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maintain health and for peace.
Second
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The second
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opinion
is that professional
athletes
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athletes'
athlete's
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behaviour
can have negative influences. Part of
this
opinion
is correct. Not all
people
have good
behaviour
. Include professional
athletes
. Some of the
athletes
substitute others, go to tricks,
behave
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and behave
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immorally. And young
people
can think that it is
the
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normal
behaviour
. But these thoughts already depend on upbringing. But if we talk about
athletes
, that
don’t
mercy themselves and train to exhaustion,
then
this
is
also
bad, because you need to have rest too. You need to work, to prepare, to train, but
and
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don’t
forget about free time, about rest, because without them you can get
overwork
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and
then
you won’t improve yourself, just destroy yourself. I can’t say that one of the opinions is incorrect. Both opinions take place. Positive or negative
role
depends
of
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on
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athlete
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the athlete
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that
young
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the young
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person
like
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likes
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and what managers or who is the main
person
of
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in
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sport
do with
athletes
which
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who
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broke
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break
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rules
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the rules
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. Some of them just turn a blind eye to their failures and continue to
promote
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promote them
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, so some
of
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apply
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young
peoples
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people
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can get
wrong
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the wrong
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opinion
about
sport
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sports
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and
behaviour
in the
sport
. But I can say that
first
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the first
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opinion
is more correct
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than that
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that
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the
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second,
because little of
athletes
is
amoral
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an amoral
the amoral
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person
and young
people
see their progress, see that
sport
can be interesting and what the result will be
,
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if they decide to do some kind of
sport
. We can’t do anything with
bad
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a bad
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person
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people
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, just defeat them in competitions without tricks and protect
yourself
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ourselves
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,
also
set them as an example of bad
behavior
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behaviour
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.
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