Nowadays, when it comes to long distance relationships, I avoid them.

如今，只要涉及异地恋，我都会有意避开。

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The evolution of the Internet is godsend for people who are in long distance relationships.

互联网的出现对于处于异地关系的人们简直是天赐之物。

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Studies show that a majority of people involved in long distance relationships eventually break up.

研究表明大多数出于异地恋的人最终都分手了。

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And one driver of that trend, says Gregory Guldner, director of the Center for the Study of Long Distance Relationships, is the perception that technology reduces the emotional separation of distance.

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"Information technology has definitely led people to believe that long-distance relationships will work more than in the past, " says Guldner.

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But while innovations like e-mail, video chatting, instant messaging, Twitter and Second Life have increased the volume of Internet chatter, they haven't necessarily made long-distance relationships any more successful, Guldner says.

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