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Advantage And Disadvantage

Band 6+: Some people prefer to do most of their shopping online. This has both positive and negative effects for individuals, businesses and society. Are there more advantages or more disadvantages of online shopping? Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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Recently, it has become common to shop online with the help of accessible opportunuties such as online shopping sites. In this technological advanced world, people tend to take benefit from these chances. It has advantages as well as disadvantages. Let’s see which one outweighs the other.

Firstly thanks to the improvements in technology, individual’s life is easier and more comfortable. Instead of going out, all they have to open their phones and order. They no longer have to deal with transportation, payments or wandering unnecessarily for hours. With online shopping, they do not need to leave their house and thus get tired of walking through crowded places. Now almost everything is accessible online. Especially for busy people who have no time to wander along the shopping center is such a precious timesaver.

However, it also has negative effects on physical and mental health. For instance when people constantly sit at home and order everything online, it can cause them to become unsocial and coach potato. The more they refrain from social enviroment the more they do not want to go out.In addition to these, people who always shop online are less likely to be aware of the money they spend. Therefore they may end up broke at the end of the month.

In conclusion, from my perspective, although sometimes it is time and moneysaver to shop online, helping this become a habit is unhealthy. At times their expectations may fall apart as the item they ordered did not show up the way they wanted.

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