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In today’s Internet Era, people who are most attached/exposed to the internet, are more in contact of people who are far away rather than the closed one and a wall between most closed/loved one is being erupted. This thing is also, clearly being reflected in The Circle by Dave Eggers. When Mae goes transparent to the world, her relationship with Annie started to change. In initial days, Annie was the only person she knew and had talks for hours, frequent meetings and the person to share about everything happened to her, but now even though she wanted to talk she can’t reach her and surprisingly she didn’t got any reply of her messages from Annie, which was quite upsetting(333). This was because she didn’t want her personal life/communication
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