Question: Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?The ability to maintain friendships with a small number of people over a long period of time is more important for happiness than the ability to make many new friends easily.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
From my perspective, I do not agree the statement that the ability to maintain a friendship for a long period of time is more important for happiness than the ability to make many friends easily.
To begin with, making a lot of friends can help people to break the "echo chamber" and be more inclusive to divergent opinions. Now because of the algorithm used in social media, people tend to only see posts that are consistent with their own points of view, and thus it seems like they are living in an echo chamber where similar voices echoed all along. The natural result of this phenomenon is people will become more and more radical and cannot bear voices that are inconsistent with theirs. However, making friends with different background is a great opportunity for them to hear different voices. Take me as an example, I have been using a dating app named Soul recently, and I made a lot of friends from different places all around the world. Once I talked with a man about prostitution, he felt very comfortable with that and said he himself wanted to try. At first, I was shocked and angry as a feminist, but then I thought that it was his freedom of choice and I should not judge him.
In addition, having friends to accompany can make people never feel isolated and find their social identity. Humans are social creatures and need accompanies. If one person only has friendships with a small group of people, he or she may have difficulty to find someone to go along with. As regard to social identity, social identity refers to the perspective people define themselves not as individuals but as members of social groups. Similar with the effect of accompany, finding the social identity can help people to find the emotional connection with people and never feel marginalized. For instance, I am an ACG lover, but I always feel lonely because ACG is a subculture and there are not many people around me know much about it. But after I made a lot of friends who have similar interest as me in Bilibili, a ACG platform, I suddenly get rid of that sense of loneliness and felt connected with the world again.
I have to admit that maintaining friendships for a long time can give great happiness to people because after so many years of getting along with each other, they can become so close that can get each others’ points easily. Thus, they can choose to talk about topics that fascinates both and can never be bored.
In a nutshell, I strongly agree that making new friends can bring more happiness than maintaining friendships for very long time.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 104, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, so, then, thus, for instance, in addition, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 13.8261648746 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 43.0788530466 107% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 52.1666666667 115% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2132.0 1977.66487455 108% => OK
No of words: 453.0 407.700716846 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.706401766 4.8611393121 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61343653406 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59392700916 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 212.727598566 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.507726269316 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 669.6 618.680645161 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.86738351254 321% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.1344086022 124% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 43.671508072 48.9658058833 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.444444444 100.406767564 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.1666666667 20.6045352989 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.77777777778 5.45110844103 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 11.8709677419 126% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.345703014025 0.236089414692 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109292904829 0.076458572812 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.123361969772 0.0737576698707 167% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.253565402735 0.150856017488 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.151304128091 0.0645574589148 234% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 11.7677419355 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 58.1214874552 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.33 10.9000537634 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 86.8835125448 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 10.002688172 180% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.0537634409 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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