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by Julia Szczepanek 7 grade

In the 21st century a day without social media seems to be impossible.

We would have to give up watching TV, listening to music, using our

smartphones, tablets and computers for long 24 hours.

Nowadays people, especially the generation of schoolchildren and young

people are definitely addicted to all the modern devices and they cannot

imagine everyday life without the stuff. They have grown up with the

Internet, catch-up TV, podcasts, news feed etc.

It is hard for them to believe that in the past people used to read only

paper books, they bought newspapers every day, and when they wanted to

talk to someone they had to meet them personally. Once it took a long

time to send a letter, a postcard or a photo through post, but now we can

do that just in a few seconds. Today we can do it all using one small device,

a mobile phone, in our hand without leaving our house. We can watch films

on demand, contact our friends, check the news, read books, buy things

online, chat anytime we want with people all over the world. Nowadays

everthing is available on social media platforms. So it is not easy to make

someone change their habits.

Moreover, even if we spend our holidays far away from our place, we

admire stunning views, beautiful nature, we enjoy meeting new people,

visiting new places, tasting new food, it is impossible not to use the phone

to take some pictures, or to send a message to our friends or members of

our family. The phone is also often used as a guidebook or GPS navigation.