Virtual Internet communication results in losing real-life social skills ответ (Сочинения ЕГЭ английский язык)

The Internet has become a part of our everyday life. Some people think that it negatively affects human face-to-face interaction, while others believe that the Internet is not able to break real-life communication between people.

To begin with, I want to point out that being in touch with people via the Internet is a typical behaviour which cannot result in losing social skills. Firstly, the Internet gives an opportunity to talk with somebody in the same way you talk in real life. For example, apps, like Skype, allows you even to see a person. Secondly, the Internet encourages us to communicate more often than in real life. For instance, it takes a little time to call a friend and see them, instead of wasting time on going out.

Nevertheless, there are those who opine that virtual communication does harm to social skills.

First of all, they think that people are becoming more antisocial at present time because the Internet creates only fake communication. In addition, my opponents claim that virtual interaction gradually leads to losing social skills because more and more people replace it with silly typing emails on a computer.

Anyway, I strongly disagree with them. As I said, I hardly believe that video chats are not real communication between people. In addition, virtual communication is not different from the offline one. It is just another kind of interaction.

To sum it up, I want to point out that it is a misleading statement that virtual communication has a bad effect on real-life social skills.