Certificate of Advanced English (CAE) WRITING 3 Is real conversation dying because of technology? By the art of conversation we express our feelings and statements. Nowadays we cannot live without it. Technology also plays a vital role in our environment. But is the one able to overlap the other? Is real conversation dying because of facebook, twitter or Skype? I would not be wrong if I said that technology has conquered our surroundings. It is all around us, changing our lifestyle at a steady pace. When I was young I was going out playing with the other children in my neighbourhood everyday and by playing football or whatever we wanted we communicated with one another. Now I rarely spot any boys or girls in the hood. However, I see them online on facebook rather often. It is obvious that "modern children" more type than talk. This is an example of how the real conversation is extinguishing because of the social network technology. Nevertheless, there are cases where science helps the art of conversation like the Stephen Hawking`s one. This man is unable to talk as he has an illness. Thanks to advanced electronics his problem has been solved. He uses a computer which is connected to his brain and converts the process of thinking into speech. This is really fascinating. Computers, smartphones and other devices for communication have its benefits and downsides. On one hand they speed up the time to receive a message, but on the other hand they kill the unique interaction between people who talk face to face. In spite of that I am on the view that there is no danger of losing our conversation skills at all. There will be always people like my grandma who cannot stop talking.