Teenagers Praise Social Media

As it is reasonable the last half of the century has many monumental changes in technology and its benefits. The social media has invested in our lifes. As a consequence many teenagers prefer to text or chat with their friends online on social account and others fortunately prefer face- to- face communication with their friends. Finally, these was of conversation have advantages and

disadvantages for teens.

   The former way of conversation –text or chat online- is the most popular nowadays. It decreases the distances, for example if their friend is abroad, they can see him/her as if they are next to them. This is one of the benefits that the latter way of conversation doesn’t have. Furthermore, they can meet new friends online from all over the world and talk about their different civilizations and so on. Although this is disadvantage at the same time because many teens don’t know the internet is dangerous; many people are lurking behind false online profiles.

   The face- to- face communication is more traditional all these years. This way is more emotional. You can see, touch and smell the other; we all combine people with special perfume. This advantage is unique. Secondly, you can see the face of your interlocutor -you can understand if he/she lies or not- this is difficult to perceive by texting. On the other hand, many teens don’t prefer this way because you must have time to see the others and this is difficult; during the day we all have things to do and we can’t meet our friends every time we need to say something, so we can call or text them.

   To conclude, both of these communications ways have advantages and disadvantages. Personally I use them but I prefer the face-to-face conversation because you can express yourself and your opinions better than with a text. I suggest to the teens to use our phones less and meet more with their friends.

Editor:

Lalou Spiridoula Maria

Primary School Teacher