“Allowing our children to spend hours a day IM’ing and employing social media is bound to impede their social skills as they enter adulthood and the workforce.”
The quotation above is a compelling one and we have all heard this thrown around by the generations before us, how social media and IMíng is deleterious and how we should use it only when needed. However, here lies the caveat of this claim: “bound to impede” is a very strong way of putting the supposed downfall of social skills. In reality, social media may or may not impede social skills and it all depends on the usage of the social media platform.
Our preferred means of communication is changing. Historically, children would be expected to meet up and talk face-to-face. This restricted making friends and communication to one geographical area. At most, perhaps, children would be allowed to send a letter which would take a while to reach and response time would take even longer. But now, our preferred way of communication is via IM’ing and social media. Allowing out children to spend hours a day IM’ing and employing social media may indeed increase their writing capacity and improve written communication. This is because platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and blogs can be use to express opinions and views, both key social skills. They may in fact be the base for written communication. Given, the style and the format of writing formal emails on the job is very different from the style of writing on social media, children must be allowed to spend hours on social media and one must highlight and flag up such writing differences in order for the child to “code switch” appropriately.
But it is true that the more social media is used, the less children and people would meet face-to-face and so that aspect of acquiring social skills would be impeded. However, if the importance of both social media communication and face-to-face meetings and modes of communication is highlighted to children, it is not necessarily true that the two have to be mutually exclusive. Both are important aspects of social skills in today’s world. Emphasising the importance of both, depending on context, is what would allow children to have highly developed social skills.
The work force is a dynamic one, where trends in communication change as people enter and leave it. Hence as the same group of children would be entering the workforce at the same time, the trends will change. Even now, the workforce is moving away from in person communication to more digital methods, including the use of IM and email communication. Generally speaking, things are considered “official” only when in writing on any of the “official” communication platforms such as Slack, an IM platform. This means that allowing children to spend hours on social media and IM’ing is in fact, setting them up for what the work force would look like when they enter it. Even today, we already have social media managers and all companies and universities use social media to promote themselves and inform the public and we need people who know and are fluent with the use of these platforms. Letting children converse on them and employ them would allow them to fit such job descriptions and due to today’s multidisciplinary approach to work, there is a little aspect of social media communication employed by all sectors.
On the whole, due to the change in the preferred means of communication and the rapid rate at which we are moving into the digital world, allowing children to grow up using tools that would help them land jobs and excel at their job in the future would enhance the social skills required on the job or in that era. However, it is communication with previous generations who are not so social media savvy that may show their apparently underdeveloped social skills. But we win some and we lose some and what social skills is important to future generations depends on where the emphasis is placed—one social media communication or on other forms of communication.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 274, Rule ID: VB_A_WHILE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'take awhile'?
Suggestion: take awhile
...be allowed to send a letter which would take a while to reach and response time would take e...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 648, Rule ID: BE_USE_TO_DO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
...h as Twitter, Facebook and blogs can be use to express opinions and views, both key...
^^^
Line 3, column 648, Rule ID: USE_TO_VERB[1]
Message: Did you mean 'used'?
Suggestion: used
...h as Twitter, Facebook and blogs can be use to express opinions and views, both key...
^^^
Line 5, column 56, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun children is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...that the more social media is used, the less children and people would meet face-to-...
^^^^
Line 7, column 101, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...on change as people enter and leave it. Hence as the same group of children would be ...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
apparently, but, hence, however, if, look, may, so, while, in fact, such as, it is true, on the whole
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 39.0 14.8657303371 262% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 87.0 58.6224719101 148% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 12.9106741573 155% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3292.0 2235.4752809 147% => OK
No of words: 654.0 442.535393258 148% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03363914373 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.05701727356 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01548629731 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 274.0 215.323595506 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.418960244648 0.4932671777 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1016.1 704.065955056 144% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.8839711347 60.3974514979 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.615384615 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1538461538 23.4991977007 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.88461538462 5.21951772744 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.13820224719 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.453407147673 0.243740707755 186% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.140977848718 0.0831039109588 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.113078503351 0.0758088955206 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.276649007533 0.150359130593 184% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0720037595925 0.0667264976115 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.38706741573 92% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 100.480337079 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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