It is obvious that email and text messaging are fantastic inventions because they make it easy to communicate with people at any time. Personally, I can’t imagine life without text messaging. My friends and I send messages to each other all the time and it’s great fun. We don’t usually have anything important to say, but we send each other funny messages, or we tell each other about things that have happened at school that day, or what we’re going to do at the weekend. Email is a wonderful invention too because it means that you can get in touch with people anywhere in the world easily and quickly. It’s really useful in the world of work, where it’s much quicker than communicating with people by letter.
I think it’s true that there are disadvantages too. Some young people get addicted to text messaging and spend all their time doing it, so they don’t actually communicate with people by speaking to them very much. They don’t have proper conversations, they just send messages in this strange language that text messaging uses. And there is the same problem with email. People don’t talk to each other directly, they communicate by sending messages. So there is less personal contact than there used to be, and that is not a good thing.
Email and text messaging are a big part of life now and it’s hard to imagine a world without them. They have brought many advantages, but I think that people should also make sure that they have personal contact with other people. Sometimes it’s better to talk to people than send them an email on text message.
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