Studies suggest that many teenagers these days prefer socialising online to meeting one another in person.
Why do you think this is the case?
What measures could be taken to encourage teenagers to spend more time meeting one another in person?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
According to recent research, social networks have become more popular with teenagers comparing to face-to-face communicating. This essay will discuss the cause of this situation, as well as the solutions needed to help teenagers become aware of the importance of direct communication.
There are various reasons why socialising online has become most teenagers' prefered method. First of all, with the development of technology, different social media platforms have been created in order to help people communicate with each other. They are considered more efficient than meeting in person, as people can look each other up on social networks and connect rather than looking for one another in real life, which is usually time consuming. In addition, various platforms means new ways to communicate, which can bring out teenagers' excitement and the need to feel included in a community. For example, a teenager nowadays can use different social networks at once, including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or Reddit, thus making even more connection with everyone.
Although being a very convenient method of socialising, there are still risks of using social networks, which is why teenagers should be encouraged to meeting each other face to face. One measure can be taken is setting up the time limit for social network applications. With this feature, parents can easily control the amount of time their children are allowed on the Internet, as well as making them communicate in person due to the limited amount of time online. Another solution is to set up offline events. Teenagers are commonly attracted by social events where they can enjoy with their friends, whether they are hosted on social networks or in real life. These events can help reducing the time spent online of a teenager as they are already participating in a real life event, thus already feeling included in the society and not having the need of finding their place among strangers on social networks.
In summary, even though using online networks is considered an effective method of socialising, teenagers are still at risk and they should be encouraged to participate in more face-to-face communication.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 687, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to reduce' or 'reduce'.
Suggestion: to reduce; reduce
... or in real life. These events can help reducing the time spent online of a teenager as ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, look, so, still, thus, well, for example, in addition, in summary, as well as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 24.0651302605 54% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 41.998997996 129% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1845.0 1615.20841683 114% => OK
No of words: 348.0 315.596192385 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.30172413793 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80503782819 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.528735632184 0.561755894193 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 587.7 506.74238477 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.10420841683 238% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.4529429536 49.4020404114 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.785714286 106.682146367 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8571428571 20.7667163134 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.28571428571 7.06120827912 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.227082839196 0.244688304435 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0869762904807 0.084324248473 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0548028468758 0.0667982634062 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136458177405 0.151304729494 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0423570508921 0.056905535591 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 13.0946893788 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 50.2224549098 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.76 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.58950901804 104% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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