Эссе: Virtual Internet communication results in losing real-life social skills

Some people say that online interaction between people decreases communication in real life, while others are sure that internet communication increases one’s real-life skills. In my essay, I would like to look upon this issue. I agree with the first point of view. Firstly, it decreases the number of offline relationships. People tend to communicate online with friends, family and coworkers and they do not need to talk in person. Secondly, the quality of face-to-face interactions decreases. People are always busy when they interact with social media. People can talk with someone in real life, but do not listen to them because they are on their phones and nobody can do multitask efficiently. As a result, people’s ability to interact in real life gets worse. However, some people say that no one loses his offline social skill because of virtual Internet communication. Conversely, they give people the opportunity to communicate with other more. Also, with people from other countries. Online practice polishes their language skills, while in real life they would likely not find a native speaker to speak with and most importantly, work up the courage to talk to one in real life. I cannot totally agree with this point of view. It is true that internet communication helps with learning foreign languages, but despite that, virtual Internet communication decreases language skills in general. People use shortened and abbreviated words, copy-paste and online programmes to check their texts. As a result, they often cannot properly use the language in real life.