The development of social media has greatly shortened the distance between people. And people are making more and more new friends nowadays. Some are not used to the rapid change and argue that it is more important to keep old friends than making new ones. In my opinion, however, making new friends has far more advantages and is thus more important than keeping old friends.
As people make more new friends, they are likely to get more assistance, and in a shorter time when in need. Let's do a simple calculation. Assume that each friend has a probability of 1/10 to offer assistance. Then the expected number of friends who want to help is the number of friends times 1/10. Clearly, one having 10 friends will have 1 friend who is willing to help, and when having 100 friends, that number will be 10. Similarly, we can also build a mathematical model to analyze the time from asking for help to obtain the assistance in terms of the number of friends. The result is similar: the more the friends, the shorter the time. Therefore people with more friends can get more support in a shorter time.
Besides obtaining more supports, making more new friends can also help you to see things more thoroughly. "There are no two identical leaves in the world". So is the characteristics and minds of humans. Each new friend will have a totally different characteristic and a unique way of viewing the world. Learning their opinions helps to complete your own idea about the world. In this way, your mind is opened and your perspective about the world changes. You will be able to see many issues from different perspectives, thus become a wiser person.
Apart from those factors mentioned above, in reality, making new friends is indeed quite useful in helping to adopt the frequent change of working or living environments. Take myself for an example: after every graduation from one level of education, I have to move to a new environment to continue the next level education until at least getting a Bachelor degree. And when I was in primary school, I have transferred twice. On average changing happens around every 3 years. I had to learn to accommodate new environments quickly, to get into it. This was when making new friends helps. By doing this, I always got used to new environments easily. What happened to me is very common, at least very typical among Chinese teenagers. Hence it is of great importance to make new friends.
Keeping old friends, certainly, has its own merits. Old friends are usually true friends, and only old friends would care much about you, are willing to share their most valuable experiences and thoughts with you and will sacrifice their own interests for you.
But who says new friends cannot be true friends? As long as we sharpen our skill on friend making, new friends can soon develop into true friends. Therefore, keeping old, true friends are, of course, important, but people should be focusing more attention on building new relationships.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, hence, however, if, similarly, so, then, therefore, thus, apart from, at least, of course, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 15.1003584229 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 43.0788530466 79% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 52.1666666667 130% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2494.0 1977.66487455 126% => OK
No of words: 514.0 407.700716846 126% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85214007782 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76146701107 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61991402379 2.67179642975 98% => OK
Unique words: 267.0 212.727598566 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.519455252918 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 751.5 618.680645161 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 33.0 20.6003584229 160% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.1344086022 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.1165375775 48.9658058833 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 75.5757575758 100.406767564 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.5757575758 20.6045352989 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.75757575758 5.45110844103 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.53405017921 132% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 23.0 11.8709677419 194% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.543672063182 0.236089414692 230% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.142545298258 0.076458572812 186% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.150445926164 0.0737576698707 204% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.297405398167 0.150856017488 197% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.164421082425 0.0645574589148 255% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.2 11.7677419355 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 58.1214874552 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 10.1575268817 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.55 10.9000537634 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.58 8.01818996416 95% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 86.8835125448 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.0537634409 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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