Cause And Effect: Decreased Letter Writting

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Causes and Effects of Decreased Letter Writing Modern technology has made it easy to communicate with someone with the press of a button. This is convenient but has made people lazy in a way. Before the time of wide-spread use of cell phones and computers, people had to hand-write letters to communicate over long distances. With the advancements of modern technology letter writing has declined sharply simply because writing a letter takes a lot of time and effort in relation to typing the message on a computer or cell phone. Almost anywhere you go today there will be a computer. The advancements in computers and the integration of the internet have made emailing one of the quickest ways to send a letter to almost anyone. Email is free and only takes a matter of seconds to send and receive where as sending a letter through the mail can be costly and take a long time to reach the correspondent. Computers make everything easier, especially when it comes to writing. Computers can turn sloppy hand writing into something everyone can read. Now you can get internet and email on your cell phone. Cell phones make it easy and convenient to communicate with someone within seconds with text messages or by calling. Instead of writing a note or letter and sending it through the mail we can just send a text message or call and have a response almost instantly. It is natural that we substitute text messaging and calling for writing a letter because it is fast and barely takes any time. Computers and cell phones have made communication easy and convenient but they have replaced the fundamental skill of being able to hand-write a letter. When it comes to writing, modern students have difficulties because the use of text messaging and computers to communicate has supplemented writing. Kids are taught from an early age how to use phones and computers. Computers can do
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