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This research essay is based on the following requirement - - Lack of face-to-face contact is becoming a serious issue these days especially among young people. Young people spend a lot of time using their mobile phones and prefer to have virtual friends instead of real life ones. This situation definitely has a great impact on their communication skills. To complete this Assignment you have to review the available literature on the topic and conduct your own survey among young Omanis to find out their attitude to using social networks and their influence on the communication skills of teenagers.
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Social networking sites are the online applications that permit consumers to link or connect with people around the world, by making personal profiles, keeping in touch with friends, inviting new friends to join the created profiles and pass on e-mails to transfer messages (Abir S. Al-Harrasi, 2014). In the contemporary time of advanced technology being so easily available, using social networking or specifically, the social media, is the most general and prevalent activity that the modern age representatives, i.e., the children and adolescent, perform in a daily basis. Social networking or social media is that platform where social interaction is permitted, such as, Facebook, Instagram, Skype, Twitter, Imo; gaming and virtual sites such as The Sims, Second Life; video application such as You Tube and so many more in various fields. These social networking sites act as the portal for the contemporary youth platform for entertainment and communication which have shown a constant growth (Gwenn Schurgin O'Keeffe, 2011).
