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Unit 4. Exercise 14. Read and listen to the text.

A famous communication professor gave us very interesting details about

teenagers' communication habits on her video blog. In one of her studies, she

asked her fans some questions on a social media platform to rank their

communication habits. The first question was, how do you communicate with your

friends? 65 % of the participants said they prefer face -to -face communication.

30 % of the participants said they like texting messages. 5 % of the

participants said they talk on the phone. We can understand that teenagers don't

like making phone calls anymore. Her second question was, why do you use video

chats? 70 % of the participants said that they use video chats because it

combines some characteristics of face -to -face interaction with the ease of

technology. Also, 50 % of the video chatters said they make their calls to do

their homework. Throughout history, people used many different types of

communication. So, the professor finally asked, what will be the future way of

communication? 90 % of the participants said that a lot of people will communicate

through social networks. This isn't very surprising because we all love to

share, comment on and like posts and communicate through them. Most of the

teenagers see their mobile phones as the most popular social tool, a way of

belonging.