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general IELTS Writing: Task 2

Overall score

6.00

6.0 of 9.0

Submitted on

Oct 27, 2025 (5 months ago)

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0 minutes

Task description

More an more people nowadays visit well-known places to take photographs of themselves, without looking at the place. Why do you think this is happening? Is it a positive or a negative trend?

You should write a minimum of 150 words.

Source: Cambridge 19

Task answer

Today tourism seems not as it was to be a couple decades earlier. Instead of observing interesting or historical places, and trying to see and listen as much as they can, people often stop after taking couple photos for their social media and move further. I think we should thank technologies for such restriction of people's interest, but lets investigate the reasons together. In past days, the most precious thing, that you could bring from journey - it is your memories. Even if the purpose to your trips was the attempt to make impression on your friends or colleagues, you needed to remember as much as you can to share your adventures after return. But nowadays there are a lot of tools for bringing your impressions to others immediately. Among this tools are high quality cameras, fast and cheap internet and wide spread social media. So it much more easily just to make an appearance of interesting time spending, then to truly have it. I am shure that this is a part of general social media trend, to highlight your the best life moments and show them like it is your ordinary life to make others jealous, because usually when you show photo in such interesting place, you implicate, that you observed it properly, not just attended it and heaving a bunch of photos in such places means, that you had much more interesting time, while in reality you just made a quick glance. I found this trend highly negative, because if we event try to think of some good sides of it - for example, attending more interesting places during trip for more photos or encouraging to really spend time in more amusement way, in reality, we have a lot of psychologist's patients with depression, who thinks, that their life is boring and having nothing to enjoy, comparing to others. So, in my opinion, peoples chase for photos to impress others, caused by life changing due to technologies, is a part of more horrible social life trend, that can lead us to not the best conclusions. It is important to encourage people to increase their conscience in impact of social media on their lifes.

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