Hi. I have too many friends to ____ by phone, so I use a lot of social networking sites ____. Today I’m finding out how people feel about modern communication. How do you like to stay in touch with your friends? Samuel: The main way that I ____ contact with my friends is via email, um, and I ____ use mobile phone.Sarah: I like ____ contact best, so that’s always my preference, but ____ I speak on the phone, write letters, send emails. Richard: I think it’s really important to stay in touch with friends, so, I’ve got a really close group of friends that we have dinner once a month. We do a kind of ‘____’, you know, we each take turns to cook for each other. ____, we do that regularly. Fay: I keep in contact with my friends via email.Geraldine: Well, I ____ use an awful lot of postcards and letters, but of course that’s now email. Josephine: Email, I ____ write letters, send text messages, and phone calls. Jasmin: My phone. My phone is my ____. Use it for everything. I hate computers. Pasha: Has modern technology helped us to communicate better? Sarah: No. I think we think we can communicate better, but I think it just ____ our fear of communicating in an honest and ____. Samuel: We’re able to make contact with someone via mobile phone instantaneously. Richard: ____ us more options. I’m a bit of a technophobe ____, erm, I don’t use social networking sites, I ____ on the whole, kind of, Twitter ____: so I know that that’s there for me to use if I wanted to, but I ____ not to bother.Geraldine: ____, it should be better, but in practice, sometimes you just have to speak to somebody on the phone. Josephine: It has, if it comes to just communication like remote communication, it has helped greatly. But on the ____, I think it hasn’t because it’s reduced a lot of physical contact, ____ contact and I think that a lot of people still feel isolated ____ we communicate a lot more than ever before. Jasmin: No. I think it’s probably made it a ____ as people don’t talk face-to-face as much and they just ____ on ‘text speak’ and things and points don’t get ____ as well if you’re not speaking face-to-face.Pasha: What kinds of problems can modern communication cause? Fay: I think modern communication can cause a lot of different problems. A ____ one would be to email the wrong person, I think. ____ that a few times myself. Jasmin: Emails. I ____ to, between my teachers: I always write the wrong things and don’t send the right work and send all the wrong stuff to all the wrong people and get all my contact lists wrong.Richard: It’s so much easier to be ____, you know, if ____ just writing an email, for example. Sarah: When I was working, I ____ sending a really important email to the ____ at the school ____ I worked and I was typing quickly ____ and I was signing it my name, which is Sarah, and I typed Satan ____ and sent it.

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