With the fantastic spur both in industry and in economy in China, there is an increasing number of people are using computers and cell phones to communicate now than face-to-face communication. Thus, some people claim that they are losing face-to-face communication abilities. While others state that using computers and cell phones to communicate have no effects on their face-to-face communication abilities.
I partly agree that parts of people are losing face-to-face communication abilities because they use computers and cell phones to communicate too much.
As computers and cell phones communication has become one of the most vital part of the adults’ work, they are absolutely making working more efficiency as adults can use it anywhere, anytime. However, working adults will not lose the face-to-face communication abilities because they also need to communicate face-to-face at the same time they use computers and cell phones to communicate.
What is more, teenagers and children are also using computers and cell phones to chat online. Among them will be some children whose language feature are not fully developed. They may lose the face-to-face communication abilities after chatting online too much. Generally speaking, adults have a fully developed language features, so they will have no problems about this.
However, there are also some adults may lose their face-to-face abilities. This group of people is called otaku who always spend most of their time online at home without going out. These kind of people have few and even no face-to-face communications which means they almost only use computers and cell phones to communicate. This groups of people on the society will absolutely lose language features.
All in all, from my point of view, most people will not lose the face-to-face communication abilities if they use computer and cell phones to communicate while some children and adults will get some effects on their language features.
