Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is often not a good thing to move to a new city or a new country because of the lost of old friends.

Nowadays, moving to a new city or a new country is sometime inevitable. There are advantages and disadvantages of moving to a new place. However, I disagree with the drawback of the lost of old friends for the following reasons.

First, new technologies make communication and traveling feasible at any corner of the world. These help friends to keep in touch. For example, the Iphone applications such as Tango or Skype provide not only a voice call but also a VDO call that we can talk and see each other at the same time. I often take advantages of these cutting edge technologies to tell...

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