Do you agree or disagree？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.

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Do you agree or disagree？
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.

Submitted by Soulze on Tue, 01/16/2018 - 10:06

Nowadays, as the technology advances and the society develops, how people think of friends varies. Some voice that making friends with a lot of people brings more happiness than keeping old friendship in the various and high-speed society. Nevertheless, if we take a deeper consideration, it would not be hard to come to the conclusion that maintaining good relationship with old friends has more advantages.

To start with, it is more relaxed to stay with long-time friends. Since people usually wish to leave a great impression on strangers who they want to make friends with. Sometimes they feel uncomfortable about the behavior that they have to show to satisfy the new friends. Imagine that a smoker try to hide his addict form his new friends, which makes him extremely uncomfortable. However, when he stays with the old ones, this would never happen. Because it is of no need hiding ourselves from long-time friends who nearly know everything about us, including the backwards. Therefore, compared to the new ones, old friends will never make us feel nervous at all.

Besides, making new friends takes massive time, even bringing much pressure, which does great harm to gaining happiness. When people intend to spend time on making many new friends, they need to occupy the time for entertainment and relaxation. In addition, people will feel under much pressure to satisfy these new friends. Like my friend Mike, who is expertise in making friends. Though having so many friends, he feel annoyed and despondent now and then. Because socializing occupies nearly all the spare time, leaving no time for him own. In this situation, he feels pressured more than happy. As a consequence, staying with old friends brings more happiness.

Last but not least, I am not denying that new friends make us feel refreshed. However, the issues above seem to be minor factors in comparison with the contradictions that making new friends may cause. Different people hold different opinions on the same issue, especially new friends. Confronted with such condition, people can not help comparing the new ones friends with the old ones and come to the conclusion that old friends are the ones who know us better.

In a nutshell, old friends are those who know us well. Staying with them will bring less pressure and contradiction, more relaxation and private time at the same time. Therefore, maintaining friendships with people for long time is better for happiness.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 67, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Since” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...relaxed to stay with long-time friends. Since people usually wish to leave a great im...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 417, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'feels'.
Suggestion: feels
...ends. Though having so many friends, he feel annoyed and despondent now and then. Be...
^^^^
Line 7, column 23, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...ore happiness. Last but not least, I am not denying that new friends make us feel refreshed...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 339, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to compare' or 'compare'.
Suggestion: to compare; compare
...ith such condition, people can not help comparing the new ones friends with the old ones ...
^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, then, therefore, well, in addition, to start with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 15.1003584229 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 43.0788530466 81% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 52.1666666667 94% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2065.0 1977.66487455 104% => OK
No of words: 406.0 407.700716846 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08620689655 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48881294772 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71472487127 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 212.727598566 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522167487685 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 602.1 618.680645161 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.51792114695 256% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.6092011555 48.9658058833 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.6 100.406767564 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.24 20.6045352989 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.96 5.45110844103 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 11.8709677419 168% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.305105787882 0.236089414692 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0992056144278 0.076458572812 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0615178745172 0.0737576698707 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.201607064508 0.150856017488 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0274323989665 0.0645574589148 42% => 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: 10.7 11.7677419355 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 58.1214874552 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 10.1575268817 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 10.9000537634 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.66 8.01818996416 96% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 86.8835125448 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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