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As our society develops, many people today often say that they are less happy than people in the old days. I agree with this opinion because today's people do not communicate with their neighbors and they only communicate through the Internet or telephone, which brings no bond among people.
To begin with, people today communicate with their neighbors less than old days. In the old agricultural society, neighbors worked together helped each other. However, people today put weight more on individualism. They are not familiar with their neighbors and worse, even do not believe them beause of growing crime rate in this society. For instance, when I was young, our family often greet new neighbors and my father used to introduce our family to them by giving them a rice cake which has a meaning of getting along with each other well. We sometimes held a party with our neighbors and went on a trip together. But today, we do not greet our neighbors and do not want to be cared from them because we can not believe them thinking that they might harm us.
On top of that, as communication technology has been developed, people today do not meet people face to face than in the old days. People in the old days often met directly and did some activity together. On the other hand, most people today communicate with each other via the Internet or telephone. This type of communication is problemetic because this cannot convey the feeling and a sense of bond. For instance, in the class, our team members prepared the project and we always held meetings through the Internet. Although the project went over well, we did not have any bond each other and after the end of the semester, we even ignored our team members, avoiding their eyes.
In conclusion, I agree with the idea that people today are less happy than people in the past. This is because people do not want to make relationship with their neighbors. Morevoer, communication through the mobile phones or the Internet do not brings bond to people.
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