Band 6: Young people spending too much time on social media, do you think this is a good think for them or not and why? (User-Submitted IELTS Speaking Answer)

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So we live in a world where most people can easily access the internet, especially young people of the younger generation. I think social media can affect them in both positive and negative ways. Let's start with the positive aspect. If you use social media correctly, it can help you access all the resources in the world, regardless of where you live. For example, if you want to look at research that an American author wrote, you can easily find it on Google or any platform. This is the positive way you can take advantage of social media and learn anything you would like to improve in your personal skills. However, the internet can also have a negative impact on young people. When they spend most of their time during the day online instead of interacting with people, it can affect them not just mentally but physically as well. It could hinder their brain development, and physically, it affects them because they may end up sleeping late. I think the internet can be both positive and negative. So this is my opinion. Thank you.

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So we live in the current world that most people can easily access to internet and especially young people like young generation. I think social media can affect both positive and negative way. Let’s start with the positive way. So social media, if you use it correctly, I think this can help you access all the resources in the world. It doesn’t matter where do you live. For example, if you want to look at the research that American order wrote it, you can just easily research it on Google or any platform. So this is the positive way that you can take this advantage and learn anything that you would love to improve in your personal skill. But in the meantime, internet can be such a negative impact to young people as well. Like when they spend most of their time during the day on internet, instead of spending time with people. And this can affect them not just mentally but physically as well. It could affect their brand development and then physically it affects them because they are going to have late time sleeping. I think internet can be a positive and negative. So this is my pile of you. Thank you.

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