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Persuasive Texting

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Persuasive essay Texting is a negative action in our society and our society should reduce the amount of being on our phone because it makes us lose our sense of communication. Meeting people face to face instead of on the phone can get you to meet and know the person better than just being on a blank screen only hearing a person’s voice. Texting gets addictive like a drug and has led to people texting and driving which is taking millions of life’s and injuries per year in the United States alone. Also texting and using technology for hours can get you to lose social skills because of just talking over the phone and not usually talking to people in person and it makes our society change in vocabulary. But technology can be in a good way because

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