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In this paper, we did a research on casual conversations between young people personally and by LINE, and found out that the conjunctions usage frequency is widely different (in personal conversations, it was 15.3%, and in conversations by LINE, it was 4.1%). As a case study, we did an analysis of the conjunctions “de (sorede)”, “dakara”, “toiuka”, and “demo”, and pointed out that, in conversations by LINE, conjunctions that function as a complement of the previous information, and conjunctions that function as an obligatory logical connective tend to increase. On the other hand, conjunctions that do not function as above tend to decrease. Also, we affirm that the conjunctions usage frequency in LINE conversations is related to the next 2 points: (1) From the point of view of Immediacy and Visibility, the need of keeping the utterance as short as possible causes a decrease of non‐obligatory words. (2) From the point of view of Topic Juxtaposing, the necessity of marking the end of the previous topic decreases, and so does the use of non‐obligatory conjunctions.