~Many people believe that social media have had a negative impact on human relationships. Do you agree that our relationships have suffered as a consequence of social media? How do you think social media will affect human relationships in the future? ~ Having appeared in the beginning of the 20th century, social media have become a big part of our everyday routines occupying almost all spheres of people’s lives. They allow us to reach out to others and build big social networks notwithstanding borders and time zones. In the meantime, we can already see the toll they have taken on the way we interact with each other. Replacing live human interaction with chatting in messengers has made us lack basic social skills in real life. It is no doubt that social media have somehow changed the way we interact. There are those who believe that social media is what drifts us apart. To my mind, they can make us even closer than earlier. If you moved somewhere thirty years ago, you weren’t able to see how your friends were doing. Now we can follow each other’s Instagram pages, watch their stories and even connect with them in real time via Zoom or Skype. Of course, these things cannot fully replace live human interaction, but in the conditions of a considerable distance they enable us to keep in touch and spend more online quality time together in comparison with mere telephone calls. It's hard to imagine what effect social media will have on our lives in the future. I believe that nothing will drastically change. As humans are sociable creatures, we won’t be able to survive without any real-life interaction. All in all, social media is a good tool if use it right. In certain circumstances it can be an only solution to the problem of long-distance relationships