Nowadays people make new friends through social networks and internet chat groups. Some people think this is good. Others think that face-to-face interaction is essential. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
People today are living in a virtual world with friends and families connected on social media platforms rather than interacting physically. While it is believed by some that the advent of social media has helped people to stay connected, others argue that this has reduced personal interactions. I believe that though the social media has helped people to connect with more people, it has also made them less social in real world. This essay will discuss both sides of the scale; followed by a reasoned conclusion.
To begin with, social media has helped people to stay connected irrespective of physical boundaries. New generation that grew in the internet age, are ardent users of these platforms, which help them to make friends with same interests and likeness. Moreover, people can stay connected to their old acquaintances irrespective of distances. For instance, a recent survey by a leading media house indicated that the likeliness of using social media is rapidly increasing among the 30-55 years age group, which view it as a tool to stay connected with extended family and friends and a cheaper alternative to phones and telegrams.
On the contrary, the social network has also become a misnomer. Youngsters today spend most if their time on platforms like Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat; leaving very little time for family interaction. Everywhere from metro, office or home, people appear hooked to these sites and pay very little attention to their surroundings. Moreover, the physical interactions between friends and families have decreased and have become limited to like, comment or an emoji on social media. As a matter of fact, a recent study by Google showed that on an average people spend 60% of their phone time browsing social media websites and an average person spends 2.5 hours on mobile.
To conclude, although social media has helped people to stay in touch in a cheaper and most convenient way; this has made people less gregarious as interaction has been limited to a small mobile screen.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, moreover, so, while, for instance, as a matter of fact, on the contrary, to begin with
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 : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 41.998997996 112% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1701.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 332.0 315.596192385 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1234939759 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.2685907696 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64942984743 2.80592935109 94% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539156626506 0.561755894193 96% => OK
syllable_count: 527.4 506.74238477 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.544355663 49.4020404114 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.5 106.682146367 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7142857143 20.7667163134 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.85714285714 7.06120827912 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.198981829854 0.244688304435 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0791356818916 0.084324248473 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0385996733728 0.0667982634062 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132166801664 0.151304729494 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0410719870739 0.056905535591 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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