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To what extent do you agree with this statement: 'Social media has had a negative impact on society.'

#media #impact #society
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 growing technologies and
increase
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time
 usage of smartphones and social
media
 applications by folks, some
people
 claim that digital communication applications
had
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have
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 a bad effect on society. Actually, I totally agree with
this
 attitude,
accordingly
 I think youngsters
stuck
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are stuck
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 in digital
platforms
 and it has lots of disadvantages for
crowd
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the crowd
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.
Firstly
, one of the worst
thing
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things
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 that
people
stuck
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are stuck
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 in
due to
 social
media
 is procrastination and laziness,
specially
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 teenagers and youngsters.
For instance
, when they see some yellow content on these
platforms
 and
spent
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uncountable
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an uncountable
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 amount of
time
 it accounts for body fat and eye diseases,
hence
people
 waste a lot of
time
 in front of the screen and they
could not
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cannot
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 control themselves.
Secondly
, using communication apps without any limitation and control will
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cause
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 misunderstanding and misconception about
the
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life among
the
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people
, they conceive that life should be full of expensive enjoyable hobbies and life should be full of luxury jewelries and stuffs. Even, spending lots of
time
 on apps will
gives
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lack
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a lack
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 of willpower to crowds too
due to
 their addiction to scrolling. On the whole, in point of my view, mostly social
media
platforms
 will cause
for
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a lot of negative effect on individuals and it leads
people
 to
worst
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worse
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 situations. I personally, most of the
times
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time
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, try to avoid using social
media
 applications, because I
have
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am
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awareness
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aware
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about
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of
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negative
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the negative
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 impacts of these
platforms
,
instead
 of
that
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apply
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I try to visit
people
 physically and
make
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have
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a
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better communication with them.
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