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Essay / Social Alienation and Loneliness - 1541
Face-to-face communication mechanism is the only method to overcome the harmful effects associated with virtual connection. Indeed, the quality of online communication cannot match that of physical meetings in the real world. Online communications also lack the traditional use of body signals. As Relationship Australia's survey illustrates, most people spend most of their time on computers and other internet-connected gadgets while communicating with other people, to the detriment of building social networks, which in turn harms relationships and leads to loneliness (Relationships Australia 2015). . It is therefore important to monitor how a person uses technological platforms and the time they spend on them, because the individual can develop addictive behaviors by spending more time online and not having time to build real