Mass media and the internet have caused people’s attention spans to get shorter. However, the overall effect has been positive: while people are less able to focus on one thing, they more than make up for it with an enhanced ability to sort through large quantities of information and find what’s important.
As it is rightly said this is an era of a digitalized world where our screen time is much higher than the time we spend in interacting with other people. Intenet is a vast pool of information and content and the adults of today have surely learnt the skill of just skimping through the unnecessary information and subsuming the important ones.
I strongly agree with the author's opinion that because of the social media bubble we live in the attention span of individuals has become lesser than that of a goldfish and the ability to filter and scrutinize information has exponentially increased. The below mentioned two scenarios would be describing this in detail.
If a college student has a paper due for submission, then he will have various links, access to previous papers, access to google scholar website etc to get content for what he wants to write in that paper. As every student of the present era goes through this process hence scrutinizing the information and lifting the correct content in a way becomes a part of the education system. hence at a later when this student goes to pursue masters and later gets a job analyzing useful information and quickly going through the not-so-important ones becomes very easy for that individual and that professional which is a very important skill. however, greater options bring along greater confusion and have there are so many links, websites, the material available the attention span surely decreases as when a person is onto one link he/she will feel like reading the next one as it will appear more useful and so on and forth, resulting in not giving too much time to one thing and jumping from one site to another.
Secondly considering the example of an individual working for a multinational company asked to provide his analysis/solution on how to solve a problem which is impacting a lot many people and which tool to be used for the same. because of the vast options available on the internet it would become very easy to compare various tools, for example, say its a data-related problem then the person will be able to consider various tool and would easily be able to pick one. this informed decision will be a result of skimping through redundant knowledge available online and picking the exact ones. however, in this process, the person will also have to jump through various applications and not giving too much attention to just one topic which results in a decreased attention span.
Looking at the above two examples it can be rightly said that anything will have both pros and cons and it's up to individuals to be able to discipline themselves as to where the social media is having a negative effect on their lives and to be able to stop themselves for a healthier mind and life.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, then, as to, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2298.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 478.0 442.535393258 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.80753138075 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67581127817 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69847554688 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495815899582 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 733.5 704.065955056 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 20.2370786517 64% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 36.0 23.0359550562 156% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 74.5552493598 60.3974514979 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 176.769230769 118.986275619 149% => OK
Words per sentence: 36.7692307692 23.4991977007 156% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.21951772744 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 7.80617977528 141% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 10.2758426966 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.198580678748 0.243740707755 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0659793054362 0.0831039109588 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0392623887663 0.0758088955206 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104008623394 0.150359130593 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0239698861946 0.0667264976115 36% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.6 14.1392134831 139% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.4 48.8420337079 89% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 12.1743820225 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.21 12.1639044944 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 100.480337079 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 11.8971910112 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.4 11.2143820225 146% => OK
text_standard: 20.0 11.7820224719 170% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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