TOEFL writing practice : communication methods

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement？ Face－to－face communication is better than other types of communication，such as letters，e－mail，or telephone calls. Use specific reason and details to support your answer.

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The technique of communication has been developing since man began to live together in the form of community. It is because human beings are impossible to live alone in terms of social being. However, while the means of communication diversified with telecommunication technology and social network service (SNS) based on web led to a considerable progress in communication, people lost closeness of between the neighbors and intimacy between friends and family by replacing the face-to-face talk to other telecom devices.

To begin with, face-to-face communication provide people with more a sense of stability and intimacy between friends and family than other means of communications. “Touch”, which is the most distinguishing trait in face-to-face communication, has been a key subject in modern society because people gradually have lost it. Here is the point of it. No other evolved devices can substitute the own function of touch. Either holding a hand or taming hair is possible only when people are in the same place. According to the recent researches, children departed from face-to-face communication suffer more difficulties in communication with others than other children who have grown up in family environment where people touch naturally each other with eye and hand and body.

On the top of that, the way of meeting people on site can deliver more information and emotions accurately as they intend. When people speak, they communicate with others by means of all senses of body. It is all for , people There are limitations to communicate with others by e-mail or telephone. People often either misunderstand the context of e-mail by mere one word or fail to read a counter partner’s mind by telephone because they cannot see their face and depend on only the channel which the method offers. 

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