Nowadays people use social media to keep in touch with others and be aware of the news. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
Among all the other breakthroughs in technology, the development of social networking sites stands a class apart. Presently, people render the services of these websites to contact with their close friends and family as well as keep abreast of the latest news. This essay will highlight both the merits and the demerits associate with using social media and will argue why the merits are ultimately superior.
Considering the negatives first, people might argue that the use of social media has the potential to cause digital dementia along with spreading fake news in an instant. The reason for such belief is that applications such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are designed in a way which makes their user use them for an extended period and causing signs of dementia in turn. In addition to this, since anyone can create a profile on such apps, the possibility to channelize fake news via them cannot be undermined. For instance, when an Iraqi Facebook user posted an altered report which claimed to disclose corruption in the Iranian education sector, riots broke up in the entire state causing damage in thousands of dollars. Thus, these mediums can be used in detrimental ways.
On the flip side, social networking sites made it easy than ever before to keep in touch with others and obtain up-to-date information. Compared to the past, when people have to wait for their morning newspaper to learn about the current news, now, at the touch of a button, they can obtain this information effortlessly, which has brought remarkable convenience. Moreover, applications like Facebook Messenger and Whatsaap enable people to do video calling and real-time chat that not only breaks the geographical barrier but also establish a sense of closeness in long-distance relationships. As far as the negatives are considered, it is up to a user’s discretion spending time surfing these apps and websites. Apart from this, as social media is constantly evolving, new measures have been taken to keep the false news in check, so the disadvantages carry little to no weight in them.
To conclude, the convenience social media has brought radically transformed the ways of information exchange and maintaining personal relationships. Even though it has trivial disadvantages, they get eclipsed by its astounding advantages.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, moreover, so, thus, well, apart from, for instance, in addition, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 41.998997996 131% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1957.0 1615.20841683 121% => OK
No of words: 374.0 315.596192385 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23262032086 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3976220399 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87621627053 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 176.041082164 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.606951871658 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 603.9 506.74238477 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.10420841683 285% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.7234372077 49.4020404114 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.466666667 106.682146367 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9333333333 20.7667163134 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.8 7.06120827912 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => 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: 0.311959444286 0.244688304435 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0898711647136 0.084324248473 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0644575852106 0.0667982634062 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16567699256 0.151304729494 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0747794679435 0.056905535591 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.0946893788 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 50.2224549098 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.43 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 78.4519038076 139% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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