It is more important to keep your old friends than it is to make new friends.
While some people may value newer friends more, I believe that it is more important to take greater care of older friendships. I hold this opinion for three reasons.
Firstly, older friends know us better. They have had more time to recognize what interests us, what we enjoy and what we do not like to do. Because they will be able to relate to us more, we will end up having more fun spending time with older friends than newer ones. On the other hand, newer friends might not agree to everything that we like, and we might be forced to suppress our interests to preserve the friendship. For example, a person might enjoy a particular genre of movie. An older friend would know about this and would be willing to watch it with him, even if the friend personally does not enjoy watching this genre. On the contrary, when this person is around new friends who find this particular genre peculiar, he might be unwilling to express his interest to watch the movie that he wants to, and end up having a bad time. Because older friends know us better and is more accepting of our likes and desires, they should have greater importance in our lives compared to the newer friends.
Secondly, older friends are more likely to come forward to help us in time of dire needs. They have a stronger sense of loyalty to us. Take, for example, a person who is suddenly in need of a financial loan to pay off an urgent debt and is looking to borrow it from a friend. A newer friend would have doubts about the urgency or the necessity of the money that this person is looking for. The new friend might suspect that lending him the money might mean that he will never get it back. An older friend, on the contrary, would be glad to come forward to help. The fact that our older friends know us better and trust us more enables them to help us when we need it the most. Older friends should therefore have a much higher value in our lives.
Finally, newer friends are usually made as we dwell in our current involvements. These friendships are usually ephemeral - they last as long as we are involved with these people. For example, a person may make new friends in her current work place. While she might be able to relate to these new friends more for the time being, these friendships are likely to end as soon as she shifts her job to another place. If she values these new friends more, and her older friends less, she might end up losing touch with her older friends in the process. Eventually, when she transfers herself to a different job, she might suddenly discover herself with very few friends. The newer "friendships" that she valued more will not be there, while the older friends would have moved on with their lives. Therefore, since newer friendships usually last for a shorter period of time, we should invest our efforts behind keeping our older friends.
In conclusion, I agree with the statement given in the question for the three reasons that I have mentioned above.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 865, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
... friendships usually last for a shorter period of time, we should invest our efforts behind ke...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, while, for example, in conclusion, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 25.0 9.8082437276 255% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 81.0 43.0788530466 188% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 52.1666666667 128% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2455.0 1977.66487455 124% => OK
No of words: 539.0 407.700716846 132% => OK
Chars per words: 4.5547309833 4.8611393121 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81833721656 4.48103885553 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.36911063169 2.67179642975 89% => OK
Unique words: 228.0 212.727598566 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.423005565863 0.524837075471 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 738.0 618.680645161 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 9.0 3.08781362007 291% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 10.0 3.51792114695 284% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.2391399846 48.9658058833 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.9259259259 100.406767564 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.962962963 20.6045352989 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.48148148148 5.45110844103 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 26.0 11.8709677419 219% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.85842293907 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.289173213994 0.236089414692 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0955756243346 0.076458572812 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0710645748594 0.0737576698707 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162720580356 0.150856017488 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0821941526564 0.0645574589148 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.0 11.7677419355 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 58.1214874552 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 10.1575268817 82% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.11 10.9000537634 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.78 8.01818996416 85% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 86.8835125448 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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