Buying things on the Internet, such as books, air tickets and groceries, is becoming more and more popular.Do the advantages of shopping in this way outweigh the disadvantages?

Essay topics:

Buying things on the Internet, such as books, air tickets and groceries, is becoming more and more popular.
Do the advantages of shopping in this way outweigh the disadvantages?

E-commerce has dramatically changed the way people do business and purchase products and services. With billions of Internet users, online shopping is no longer a theory, rather it has changed people’s lifestyle and buying habits to a great extent. With the exception of few disadvantages, online shopping has tremendous benefits and it will dominate the global business even more in the coming days to make people’s life easier.

To begin with, online shopping enables consumers to get a service or a product from home. They no longer need to travel a long distance or wait in a long queue to pay their bills or withdraw cash. With the widespread use of the hand-held smart devices and the Internet, shopping is just a few finger taps away. This saves valuable times and enables people to use plastic money which is more secure than conventional transactions. Moreover, online banking, ticket booking system, e-payment and online-subscriptions facilitate mass people to avoid traffic congestion and help maintain a green environment. From a business owner’s perspective, online shopping permits them to run the business 24x7 and without the need for any extra staff, utility bills and so on. This permits them to offer products at a more competitive price. Furthermore, consumers enjoy a great freedom to purchase global products from renowned websites like eBay and Amazon and compare the quality and price of a product before making a purchasing decision. Perhaps the most noticeable benefit of this trend is the unparalleled opportunity it has brought for ordinary people to open their own online shops and run small businesses online. This would never have happened without the boom of online business trends.

Among the drawbacks of online shopping, identity theft and digital scams are more common. Careless use of a credit card or sensitive personal information can often invite intruders and hackers to harm someone. Finally, online shopping does not allow someone to physically inspect a product before buying it and this often leads to customer dissatisfaction. However, these demerits can easily be avoided by being cautious and relying on reputed brands.

To conclude, the overwhelming benefits online shopping offers far outweigh the few demerits it has. I personally am an online shopper and I believe that this has immensely improved our freedom of shopping and lifestyle.

Votes
Average: 8.9 (1 vote)

Comments

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 255, Rule ID: WITH_THE_EXCEPTION_OF[1]
Message: Use simply 'except' or 'except for'
Suggestion: Except; Except for
...le and buying habits to a great extent. With the exception of few disadvantages, online shopping has ...
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Line 3, column 862, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'great freedom'.
Suggestion: great freedom
...ive price. Furthermore, consumers enjoy a great freedom to purchase global products from renown...
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Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...autious and relying on reputed brands. To conclude, the overwhelming benefits o...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, furthermore, however, if, moreover, so, to begin with, to a great extent

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 10.4138276553 230% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2036.0 1615.20841683 126% => OK
No of words: 381.0 315.596192385 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.343832021 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41805628031 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.913579715 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 176.041082164 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.590551181102 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 639.9 506.74238477 126% => 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: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.1410546698 49.4020404114 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.157894737 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0526315789 20.7667163134 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.26315789474 7.06120827912 60% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
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: 0.158125746016 0.244688304435 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0522042732283 0.084324248473 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0362904086754 0.0667982634062 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100743960441 0.151304729494 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0173330091849 0.056905535591 30% => 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: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 50.2224549098 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.4159519038 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.1 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 78.4519038076 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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