Some people believe that our ever-increasing use of technologysignificantly reduces our opportunities for human interaction. Other peoplebelieve that technology provides us with new and better ways to communicate andconnect with one another.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns withyour own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. Indeveloping and supporting your position, you should address both of the viewspresented.
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The statement is about a controversial topic that how the boomingtechnology influences on human interaction. On side of people hold that moderntechnology impairs the connection between people, while the other side believesthat it betters communication among humans. Both of the two sides have theirown reasons and I concur with them partially, but from my point of view, thesetwo claims are too categorical. Their own opinions are both correct in thesense of their own definition of "interaction" or "communication".High-tech devices do reduce communication between some of people who are closeto each other. However, technology also makes it possible for people at adistance to talking and interacting.
What should we well define "interaction" or"communication"? Interaction means that two people are together orapart, and they are just like computers and put their interfaces bonded witheach other and read or write some information from or to the other one. In thissense, connecting each other or keeping in touch with someone else could be inthe method of talking face-to-face, making phone calls, Skype and so on soforth. Therefore, new technologies which provide everyone phones so that we cantalk to each other by phones. And high-techs make everyone has other things todo instead of gathering with friends.
Phones and internet make people in a distance closer because they providethem an approach to talk to each other. Just as the slogan of AT&T,"The world, delivered", people can talk to friends or relatives nomatter where they are. Parents in U.K. can easily talk to their children inU.S. via phones or facetime. Lovers can send text messages from China to Franceand vice versa. It seems almost impossible that people can contact to eachother in a short period of time when they are far apart. This is also why driftbottle was used several centuries ago. As the improvement of technology, peopleare no longer worried about being apart due to the convenience forcommunicating.
Conversely, technology also prevents people from talking to or learningmore from others. For instance, it's pretty common that students wait for the startof a class with mobile phones in the hands. They might be browsing some websitesthey like or tweeting their feelings instead of getting familiar with otherstudents around them. In this sense, they miss quite good opportunities to getto know their peers who are more likely to be good friends. Too muchinformation floods into everyone's life via cellphones and computers, andpeople around just become strangers or acquaintances at last. This seems alittle bit pathetic and a real loss to the whole society.
Improvement of technology is no doubt making a difference to everybody'sdaily life, and it exerts influences to us in every aspect. Communicationbetween people is also one of these aspects. For the two sides in thestatement, I can only partially agree with both of them. Generally speaking,high-techs bring a slew of real expedience to people remote and make thingsimpossible in the past come true. Nevertheless, they also impair interactionsin a neighborhood because of the substitutions of chatting with others. As aconsequence, we humans should make fully use of the bright side of new technologyand minimize the disadvantages at best. | 
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