Some children spend hours every day on smartphones. Why is this? Do you think this is a positive or negative development?
The time spent in using smartphones has burgeoned over the last few years and mostly, children fall prey to their addiction. There are many reasons behind this phenomenon which will be discussed in this essay thoroughly along with its consequences before concluding that this is a negative trend.
The first reason behind the overuse of smartphones is that, some digital applications are extremely addictive. Once a child starts using it, it becomes nearly impossible to leave it. Digital games attributes to this addiction. Nowadays, the graphics of mobile games have improved remarkably which captivates children. Moreover, after the Covid pandemic, almost all of the schools shifted to online classrooms. As a result, a child gets cut off from the real school environment and have to spend hours on online classes.
The other reason could be that, in today's world, both the parents have to work in order to sustain a better life. As they are always busy, the only way to limit the distractions caused by their children is to give them moblie phones. When children remain distracted by them, parents can go to work peacefully. This trend has a lot of bad impacts. There are various prohibited sites which children can watch unknowingly. It may also lead to interference in their privacy as most of them are used by hackers.
This trend has many detrimental effects on a child's health. Overuse of smartphones deteriorates their eyesight. A survey, conducted by the US department of Children's education, claims that after the advent of online schooling, more than 60% children started to have sight related problems. Furthermore, in lieu of playing outside having physical sports experience, they spent their leisure time by using video games. Apart from effects on eyesight, their physical heath also worsens. Also, they become isolated from the family and are not able to express their emotions freely.
It is true that smartphones made it much more convenient to be connected to everyone, but this advantage came at a price. Children actually gets cut off from their family and friends as they tend to be always busy in the virtual world.
In conclusion, the practice of excessive use of smartphones should be abandoned. Schools, families and government authorities certainly have to work together to bring this change.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 24, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
The time spent in using smartphones has burgeoned over the last ...
^^
Line 3, column 362, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...eover, after the Covid pandemic, almost all of the schools shifted to online classrooms. A...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, furthermore, if, may, moreover, so, apart from, in conclusion, as a result, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 24.0651302605 150% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 41.998997996 145% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1959.0 1615.20841683 121% => OK
No of words: 379.0 315.596192385 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16886543536 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41224685777 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73590984735 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 176.041082164 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.585751978892 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 593.1 506.74238477 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 8.0 2.52805611222 316% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 16.0721442886 149% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.2975951904 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.6383848979 49.4020404114 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.625 106.682146367 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.7916666667 20.7667163134 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.75 7.06120827912 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.38176352705 137% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 3.4128256513 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.190382490917 0.244688304435 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0527703672675 0.084324248473 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0481630964325 0.0667982634062 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106390089989 0.151304729494 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0441035814985 0.056905535591 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.0946893788 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 50.2224549098 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.41 12.4159519038 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 78.4519038076 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.1190380762 79% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 24, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
The time spent in using smartphones has burgeoned over the last ...
^^
Line 3, column 362, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...eover, after the Covid pandemic, almost all of the schools shifted to online classrooms. A...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, furthermore, if, may, moreover, so, apart from, in conclusion, as a result, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 24.0651302605 150% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 41.998997996 145% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1959.0 1615.20841683 121% => OK
No of words: 379.0 315.596192385 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16886543536 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41224685777 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73590984735 2.80592935109 98% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 176.041082164 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.585751978892 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 593.1 506.74238477 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 8.0 2.52805611222 316% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 16.0721442886 149% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.2975951904 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.6383848979 49.4020404114 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.625 106.682146367 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.7916666667 20.7667163134 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.75 7.06120827912 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.38176352705 137% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.9879759519 201% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 3.4128256513 234% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.190382490917 0.244688304435 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0527703672675 0.084324248473 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0481630964325 0.0667982634062 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106390089989 0.151304729494 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0441035814985 0.056905535591 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.0946893788 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 50.2224549098 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.41 12.4159519038 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 78.4519038076 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.1190380762 79% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.