The use of social media, like Facebook and twitter, is replacing face to face contact for many people in daily life. Do you think the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
题目大意
社交媒体的使用，如Facebook和twitter，正在取代许多人在日常生活中的面对面接触。你认为这样做的好处大于缺点吗？
写作思路解析
1.在所有的争论中，社交网络取代面对面接触的情况所产生的优点不能不说“可能性”，这是在线交流中非常模糊的定义。据说，这种社会化打破了与距离有关的自然规律，建立起了在现实生活中形成沟通障碍的关系，使得与其他城市甚至国外的观众，与那些与自己圈子完全无关的人的生活共享成为现实。正因为如此，许多人才实现了在过去与名人成为朋友，甚至更戏剧性的，通过吸引数以千万计的追随者成为名人的梦想。在社交媒体上点击率的指数级增长直接扩大了几乎每一个互联网用户的名声，因为他们中的许多人可能永远没有机会在面对面的接触中这样充分地展示自己。
2.上述细节构成了这样一种情景：社交媒体取代面对面的接触将给某些人带来新的生活，但也存在另一种可能性，即“接触”的本质将在人类中几乎永远消失。社交活动本身是一种相对矛盾的活动，人们通过社交活动想了解一个真实的人，但同时又试图粉饰自己以“欺骗”：化妆和盛装打扮等被用来美化每一个社交者。这就是造成人类虚荣的原因，虚荣会在虚拟社会化实现后升级。网络页面上可以充斥着所谓的“现实生活图片”，背后是上传者用更好的镜头或照片处理软件过度装饰着每一种食物或饮料、每一个动作，甚至是他们的脸或身体，目的是证明他们是多么享受自己的生活，或成为别人梦寐以求的人。这意味着，一旦人们可以自由选择自己生活中的哪一部分可以炫耀，哪一部分可以完全隐藏，如果有机会，他们只能通过这种方式与他人接触，没有人会知道接触的哪一部分是真实的，那么人们就会变得越来越不真实。
3.与大多数技术发展一样，我怀疑，与自身的局限性相比，这种情况会或多或少更有利。社交媒体给我们带来了便利和可能性，现在没有什么好担心的，因为这种替代还没有这么势不可挡。我们仍然需要将现实生活与其他人联系起来；无论如何，我们仍然没有足够的计算能力来完成彻底的在线社交生活。这意味着现实仍然是我们日常生活中的现实，而装饰在网上的花哨生活，只是在为我们实现对严酷现实生活的暂时逃避而发挥作用的幻想。
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写作示范
Such is a scenario of our dependency on social network: we are indulging ourselves into the live show on Instagram or Twitter, posting images concerning to our life and waiting for the likes from online friends or strangers. We also text others using smart phones or computers, but many of us are reluctant to talk or communicate in face: the drastic improvement in computing power is what made distant communication possible. However, like opening a pandora’s box, no one knows whether our human race is headed towards its own ideals or the very own demise.
Among all the disputes, the merits generated by the situation of social network replacing the face to face contact cannot keep from talking about “possibility”, the very ambiguous definition in online communication. It is said that this type of socialization has broken the natural rules concerning distance and established relations that form the barriers in real-life communication, making the living sharing become true with the viewers from other cities or even from abroad, and with those who are not related to one’s own circle at all. That is why many people have realized the fantasies in the old days of becoming friends with celebrities through the brand new online social power, or even more dramatically, of becoming celebrities by attracting tens of millions of followers. The exponential increment of the hits over the social media directly expand the fame of almost every internet user, since many of them may otherwise never have a chance of showing themselves that well in the face to face contacts.
The aforementioned details compose one scenario in which how the replacement of the face to face contact by social media would bring a new life to some people, but there is an alternative “possibility”, where the essence of “contact” would vanish among the human beings almost forever. Social intercourse is itself a relatively conflicting activity, through which people intend to get to know a real person, but meanwhile try to whitewash themselves to “deceive”: makeups and glory dressings, etc., are used to beautify every socializer. That is what made human vain, and the vanity would only be escalated once the socializing is realized virtually, with the possibility of being exposed to more viewers or likers. The online pages can be filled with the so called “real-life pictures”, behind which the posters overly decorate every food or drink, every movement or even their faces or bodies with a better lens or photo-processing software, for the purpose of proving how well they are enjoying their life, or becoming the persons others are dreaming to be. That means people would become increasingly unreal once they can freely choose which part in their life can be shown off, and what part can be perfectly hidden, and if any chance has it that they are able to only contact others through this way, no one would know what portion of the contact is true.
Like most technological developments, I suspect that the situation would be somehow more beneficial compared with its own limitations. Social media brings us convenience and possibilities, and there is nothing to worry about now seeing as an absolute pessimistic future, since the replacement has never been so overwhelming. We still have to make real-life interconnectedness with others; there is still no enough computing power for us to fulfill the complete online social life anyway. That means the reality is still what we have in our daily life and the fancy life decorated online, however, is just playing a part for us to realize our momentary escapism from the harshly real life.
