Internet social media have become very popular. To what extent do you think this is a good or bad thing? Why do you think this is the case?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
The rise in popularity of social networking platforms on the Internet has been tremendous recent times. This essay aims to weigh in the pros and cons and give explanations for this development.
To an extent, internet social media have been an extremely useful tool serving multilple purposes, ranging from entertainment, communication to other practical needs. For example, with access to the Internet, people can log in pages such as Facebook or Twitter to read up-to-date news, keep in touch with family and friends or participate in lively online debates covering a variety of topics. This, I believe, has resulted in significantly higher standard of living as people have multifunctional tool to meet their emotional and intellectual needs. However, the satisfaction provided by this social networking media also exerts a negative impact. As netizens become addicted to the virtual world, they tend to isolate themselves from the real world with an apparent decrease in the number of face to face conversations with other people. As a result, their socializing skills will be inevitably deteriorated.
There are several reasons why social networking sites have become so ubiquitous. Firstly, the increasing availability of communication devices such as personal computers and especially smartphones with broadband Internet access has facilitated the growth in popularity of social media. Brands such as Apple or Microsoft have produced and sold such devices at an affordable price range to markets around the world. Secondly, it is also worth acknowledging that celebrities have played an integral role in promoting the notion of using social media for communication among members of society. By posting status updates on pages such as Twitter and Instagram, they compel fans to log in and interact by commenting on their posts and thus, increase the number of the sites' users.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, for example, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 13.1623246493 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 7.30460921844 14% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 24.0651302605 50% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1595.0 1615.20841683 99% => OK
No of words: 294.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.42517006803 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14082457966 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01156431852 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.602040816327 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 505.8 506.74238477 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.9744313323 49.4020404114 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.692307692 106.682146367 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6153846154 20.7667163134 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.38461538462 7.06120827912 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.38176352705 68% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.159090661505 0.244688304435 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0624187523825 0.084324248473 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0412677608606 0.0667982634062 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119891000594 0.151304729494 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0232756277526 0.056905535591 41% => 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: 15.5 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 50.2224549098 81% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.51 12.4159519038 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.1 8.58950901804 118% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 78.4519038076 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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