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How technology affects communication

• In recent decades technology has made significant progress and affected many spheres o human life.

• In general modern people make more communications than those of preceding generation.

• Using computers and various gadgets with Internet access people can communicate whenever and wherever they want.

• Everyone can participate in a conversation with friends or a discussion with strangers right from their.

• But can one call social network friend a real friend? Not really.

• Most of those 'friends' are people we met once or worked with or just found attractive and decided to keep them close enough to be able to reach.

• You don't need to invite those people for a dinner, you can contact them only when you need something or rather when you are bored.

• Such a state of thing is not good or bad itself, though may have both positive and negative effect.

• Positive is that we don't have to remember or be afraid to loose contact details (phone number, address) or even names?

• Because we can always find the right person in the our phones contacts or social network's friend list.

• Another advantage is possibility of long-distance communication.

• Also you can use social media to find partners for your business or even employment or simply to advertise your goods and services.

• Disadvantage is that we shall be cautious and care about our privacy.

• We don't want to be annoyed by multiple messages when we are busy, we don't want to be overloaded with unnecessary information.

• There is also a tendency to fall into dependency of social media.

• A person may neglect live communication preferring to chat via messenger or website.

• To sum it all, technology has made people's lives easier in many ways and sometimes even more rich and interesting.