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Agree or disagree: people nowadays spend much time than they should using text messages and new technologies such as social media to communicate with each other.

With the development of modern technology, various ways of communication are available today, such as text messages, cell phone calls, and online chatting, among others. It seems that people do not have to communicate with each other face to face anymore. However, some people argue that people nowadays spend much time than they should using new technologies in daily communication. I totally agree with this viewpoint for the following reasons.

People today are extremely dependent on new technologies in daily communication even if using those technologies is less effective compared with talking in person. For example, in workplace, team members need to schedule meetings to discuss about the projects that they are working on. In the past, workers needed to get together, distributing handouts and working on the projects face to face. Today, they tend to have a video or teleconference so that team members do not have to meet in person. In fact, it usually takes time to set up the video or telephones; as a result, the meeting might not start on time as it is scheduled. Moreover, during video or teleconferences, the Internet connection or telephone signal is sometimes unstable, which might interrupts the conference from time to time. Still, in order not to get up early or to rush from home to the company, many workers prefer to have video or teleconference instead of attend a face-to-face meeting in the conference room.