Social media has replaced the traditional methods of communicating, and people use more and more social media to communicate, and to follow news and events. Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages? (March – 2018)
Since the past two decades, technological inventions have greatly changed the world. There has been a transformation from conventional communicating methods to the use of digital technology for updates of events happening around the world. Though this gradual movement has many disadvantages like addiction to social media and lack of connections among people, the benefits of easy access to information, long distance communication and instant response have outweighed the downsides.
The use of internet and smartphones has several negative consequences on people and the society. One such demerit is that the control of social media applications on its users is rapidly increasing. To illustrate, youngsters are highly addicted to phone applications like Whatsapp and Facebook messenger for constant chatting with their friends instead of concentrating on their academic studies. Another potential disadvantage is the lack of relationship building and personal relations of people with each other. For instance, in most of the family gatherings like weddings and parties, everyone is seeing scrolling the news feed of Facebook or Instagram instead of having meaningful conversations with the people at these occasions.
Despite of the detrimental effects of digital ways of interaction, there are significant advantages of this method. One important merit is that it has made it possible to obtain updates from anywhere with just once click. To exemplify, the users of twitter applications post live statistics on traffic situations of the most common routes and important highways which helps vehicle drivers to accordingly choose their paths and avoid traffic jam. Another crucial benefit is the possibility of long distance interactions. For example, with the aid of the Whatsapp calling feature, it is possible to talk for long hours with relatives who are overseas which generally costed a fortune with traditional methods. The most obvious advantage is the time and speed of the delivery of messages to another person through this medium of communication. In other words, in a fraction of second, one can inform his or her closed ones about urgent situations or tragedies which was rarely possible through old means of conversing.
To recapitulate, even though there is a bad influence of the usage of social media for interacting with people, the benefits certainly overcome this negative aspects.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, if, second, so, for example, for instance, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 7.85571142285 13% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 41.998997996 160% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2048.0 1615.20841683 127% => OK
No of words: 369.0 315.596192385 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.55013550136 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38284983912 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04978363503 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 176.041082164 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.579945799458 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 640.8 506.74238477 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 5.43587174349 18% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.76152304609 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.3780950756 49.4020404114 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.0 106.682146367 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0625 20.7667163134 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.375 7.06120827912 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
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: 0.133408874253 0.244688304435 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0433892030114 0.084324248473 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0447612178609 0.0667982634062 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0893405501773 0.151304729494 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0344673622883 0.056905535591 61% => OK
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: 15.21 12.4159519038 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.0 8.58950901804 116% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 78.4519038076 156% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => 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: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.