Apart from workers, students are addicted to social media in communications as well. Nowadays, students could chat with each other on Facebook or Twitter, and they become reluctant to go out and play with their friends compared with students in the past. Many parents are worried about this situation because staying in front of computers or sticking to smart phones is harmful to their children’s physical health. For example, staying in front of computer for a long time could lead to a sedentary lifestyle, which probably will cause obesity or other diseases. Regardless of their parents’ concerns, students, however, still use smart phones or online chatting to kill time. According to a recent online survey in my hometown, almost 70% students prefer to use social media to communicate with friends instead of meeting in person because they could use stickers online and share video clips with each other. It seems that face-to-face communications among students is less popular now than in the past.  

In a word, people today tend to rely on technologies such as social media to communicate with each other rather than meeting in person.