In recent decades technology has made significant progress and affected many spheres o human life.
Our social life was not an exception.
Technology has brought mobile phones, instant messengers, social networks, etc into everyday use.
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.
With the help of social networks people make more connections with each other.
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.
When life has thrown you far from home, technology allows to keep in touch with family or old friends.
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 some information we share with friends to be of use for wrong people.
Sometimes being in touch may be a disadvantage as well.
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.
It may result in lack of concentration and productivity at work or studies.
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.
Nevertheless, there are some disadvantages caused by excessive or improper use of some technologies.
April 2016
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