Some people believe that our ever-increasing use of technology significantly reduces our opportunities for human interaction. Other people believe that technology provides us with new and better ways to communicate and connect with one another.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
Technology has brings us new tools for communication, such as instant messages, but also lots of distractions from interaction, which includes competitive social environment and other entertainments. Thus, to fully evaluate two arguments, we could first list some of their reasons and then make comparisons between advantages and disadvantages.
True, techonology development does reduce communicaton because it is more expensive, and less necessary. First, the high pace of life engendered by the advance of technology makes people occupied and possess less disposal time. People could earn money if they spend the time they used to communicate to work. What is more, actually they have to work diligently to keep employed. The high time cost reduces the chance for people to communicate.
Second, before the arrival of information era, it is primarily through face-to-face communication that people convey messages and inform others. However, the needs does not exist now. People could be informed by all kinds of mass media, including televisons, newspapers and social platform. People thus have less incentive to communicate since the talking with each other, which is the traditional method of garner information, become increasingly inefficient.
However, Some may argue that use of technology helps us communicate in the following ways. First, with the development of information technology, it is easier to acquire information from others. The multifarious mass social platform such as Facebook and Tweet equip us with instant messages; the e-mails and instant messages provide us with tools to break through the geographical distance to inform others in minutes. However, consider that in the middle age, people can only turn to letters for communication in long distance. Thus,it seems that the only thing changed is the form of communication, we do not rely on the close distance or letters to communicate. The technology facilitates the interaction.
What is more, though distraction on the Internet such as computer games and videos could occupy people's time, it is primarily the personal qualities that should take the responsibility for declining interaction with others. What the technology does is to provide human beings with more convenience and possibilities to talk with others. In addition to that, technology also offers people with various entertainments. The choice ultimately lies on the preference and dispositions of the individual. Thus we cannot say that technology reduces interaction among people.
Granted that technology enhances communication in some ways, to fully evaluate the boons and banes, it is better to reflect on the definition of interaction before reaching the conclusion. Interaction equals not only acquiring information and facts, but a social way to understand each other, to cultivate a friendship or intimacy, to make each other feel happy and enriched. In this sense, what technology brings about, which is brand new communication tools, generally lack such relationships. People simply enter the words and sentences into the cold machine and get those out of the machine. But in real life, communication includes a simple gesture, a knowing smile, a gracious hug, an exaggerated tone. All these are integral elements for an effective communication. Hence, the drawbacks technology brings about far outweigh its superficial convenience.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 534, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , it
...for communication in long distance. Thus,it seems that the only thing changed is th...
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Line 9, column 499, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...nce and dispositions of the individual. Thus we cannot say that technology reduces i...
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Line 11, column 785, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'drawbacks'' or 'drawback's'?
Suggestion: drawbacks'; drawback's
... an effective communication. Hence, the drawbacks technology brings about far outweigh it...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, hence, however, if, may, second, so, then, thus, in addition, such as, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 32.0 12.9106741573 248% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2889.0 2235.4752809 129% => OK
No of words: 517.0 442.535393258 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.58800773694 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76839952204 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14325665582 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 282.0 215.323595506 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545454545455 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 907.2 704.065955056 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Interrogative: 4.0 0.740449438202 540% => Less interrogative sentences wanted.
Article: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.9694080016 60.3974514979 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.6206896552 118.986275619 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8275862069 23.4991977007 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.8275862069 5.21951772744 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.83258426966 269% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.312812496036 0.243740707755 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0789397550332 0.0831039109588 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0577579022999 0.0758088955206 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159197848678 0.150359130593 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0433288681477 0.0667264976115 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.3 48.8420337079 76% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.85 12.1639044944 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 139.0 100.480337079 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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