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Online Dating
Dating people online has become an extremely popular custom that has developed as more and more people have figured out the ___(26)___ of using the Internet as a way of finding love. People of all ages submit to dating online, teens and adults ___(27)___ searching for that special person by setting up ___(28)___ on online dating sites and browsing through other people’s profiles. On dating websites, singles are provided the ___(29)___ of learning a few things about various potential partners, making their decision of contacting them based ___(30)___ dating profile descriptions and photos.
Out of the many countries where people practise online dating, the United Kingdom is perhaps the keenest on online dating ___(31)___ most English people prefer to browse on the Internet in order to find ___(32)___ instead of trying to meet other people in bars, clubs, parks or at parties.
Dating may vary across the globe, yet as time passes, people develop ___(33)___ dating customs, such as dating with the help of the Internet. Although this ___(34)___ of dating is mostly practised in the Western civilization, no one can tell for sure what other customs will emerge as the world changes, and whether strict dating will come against some people’s right of choosing whatever partner they see ___(35)___ for themselves.
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Pros of Peer Pressure
Peers help us to gain new experiences and information. We can learn many things from the ___(36)___ of people around us to make ourselves better. It can be copying someone’s ___(37)___, dressing style, or fitness. According to psychology, people perform better when they have someone to support them. Sometimes members of a group motivate us to perform a(n) ___(38)___ that we think we are not able to do.
All decisions we make have some direct or indirect ___(39)___ on people. So, when we are in a group of productive people, they will always give us advice that is useful to us. Friends also create a good ___(40)___ when they frown upon bad behaviours and habits, and share their positive values.
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Cons of Peer Pressure
Friends may encourage ___(41)___ in risky things, such as fighting, reckless riding or cheating in class. Students could get distracted because of peer pressure of playing truant or ___(42)___ study.
A person makes reckless decisions without ___(43)___ just only because others also do this. The most relevant example of this is ___(44)___ items that are unnecessary. People start ___(45)___ fake lives to impress others, and it can lead them to harmful results. Sometimes a person may want things due to peer pressure, but he or she isn’t able to get them because of some issues, which could then make them upset or depressed.