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.
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
In the modern age, youngsters have a tendency to meet up people online rather than having a real-life converstation. In my personal view, social interaction in face to face situations bring about positive affect that online meeting can not replace.
Firstly, there are numerous reasons why adoslescents tend to socialise online. A primary cause is its availability. It is convenient for young people to chat and video call with their friends regardless of where they are. For example, long-distance couple who can not meet face to face regularly now can have conversations online every day thanks to technology advancement. Another possible reason is that online applications allow individual to make multiple friends online. This can help expand their social circles especially social platforms and dating applications are designed to connect people with same interests and hobbies.
On the other hand, overusing these online platforms to socialise can have some negative impact on our social life and it is important to have practical measures to tackle it. If a teenager use too much time chatting online, it can reduce the amount of his physical activity and relationship quality. This is because he will spend less time outdoor and lose physical touch with his loved ones. In order to encourage teenagers to meet their friends in person, parents can limit their time using electronic devices, by this way they will have to go outside to meet and catch up with their friends. We can also pursuade youngsters to join a social club or play sport which requires face to face gatherings. By this way they can improve their physical as well as mental health.
In conclusion, while online communication may benefit teenagers in certain way, I believe that we should take actions to encourage young people engage in person interaction.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, may, so, well, while, for example, in conclusion, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 24.0651302605 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 40.0 41.998997996 95% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1546.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 298.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18791946309 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7709425485 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 176.041082164 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.614093959732 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 493.2 506.74238477 97% => 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: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.9837178476 49.4020404114 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.066666667 106.682146367 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8666666667 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06120827912 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => 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: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.189402013777 0.244688304435 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.061335121995 0.084324248473 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0455874186804 0.0667982634062 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116869817393 0.151304729494 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0179995027715 0.056905535591 32% => 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: 12.9 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 78.4519038076 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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