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?
Researches have found that a large proportion of teenagers in present-day society prefer online communication to face-to-face meetings. This phenomenon can be attributed to several factors, and this essay will propose some measures to remedy it.
There are two key drivers behind teenagers' preference for virtual socialisation. Chief of these is the undeniable convenience of this method of interaction. For instance, people can now instantly contact their acquaintances with a few keyboard clicks, regardless of the distance between them. Given that youngsters tend to like effortless activities, they are often more inclined to talk to other people through instant messaging platforms like Messenger or Discord, rather than gather in-person. Added to this is the fact many teenagers find it difficult to communicate in real-life. To illustrate, they may have trouble expressing their emotions, or feel anxious and struggle to voice their ideas coherently. These problems are eliminated in digital communication, as socially inept teens can simply use emoticons and abbreviations to demonstrate their feelings, and calmly proofread their messages before sending them.
Teenagers can be encouraged to meet up with others more in a number of ways. Firstly, they should be incentivised to participate in regular extracurricular activities like sports or volunteering. This will ensure that they frequently gather with wide groups of peers and gradually improve their communication skills, thus diminishing the preference for virtual contact. A personal example would be that I used to rely on chatting with my friends on the Internet, but I eventually applied to some social clubs, which gave me the opportunity to constantly meet up with new people and boost my social skills. Secondly, teens should be informed of the harm that online communication can cause. For example, parents can teach their children about how it can give rise to a variety of health problems, as well as the risk of facing dangerous individuals like pedophiles or hackers, to deter them from overusing this means of communication.
In summary, the causes of teenagers' inclination to contact others on the Internet rather than meet up in person are convenience and inadequate social abilities, and the solutions lie in encouraging them to partake in after-school activities and educating them about the dangers of online socialisation.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 34, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'teenagers'' or 'teenager's'?
Suggestion: teenagers'; teenager's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, thus, well, for example, for instance, in summary, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 24.0651302605 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 41.998997996 160% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 8.3376753507 192% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2049.0 1615.20841683 127% => OK
No of words: 370.0 315.596192385 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.53783783784 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38581623665 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14363363521 2.80592935109 112% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 176.041082164 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.591891891892 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 636.3 506.74238477 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 0.809619238477 618% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.0750677102 49.4020404114 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.0625 106.682146367 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.125 20.7667163134 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0625 7.06120827912 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => 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: 0.179640485899 0.244688304435 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0639873655226 0.084324248473 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0512604097705 0.0667982634062 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119241755156 0.151304729494 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.016475367458 0.056905535591 29% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 13.0946893788 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 50.2224549098 79% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.15 12.4159519038 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.77 8.58950901804 114% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 78.4519038076 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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