Many people today use their phones to communicate by sending text messages than talking. What are the reasons for this? Does it have advantages and disadvantages?
In recent times, the trend of communication on mobiles phones shows that people prefer to send text messages rather than make voice calls. This essay will suggest that cost and convenience are the major reasons for this development before discussing some of its main benefits and drawbacks.
To begin with, mobile communication in most countries is an essential part of life, however the cost has not been pocket friendly. This has led to people looking for alternative and cheaper means of communicating. For instance, talking on the phone in Nigeria cost over 20 Naira per minute, while a text message of 100 characters attracts a fee of 4 Naira, this cost saving have led more and more people to switch to putting their thoughts and feelings into words. Furthermore, Short message Services are convenient and private. Unlike phone calls that are usually loud and intrusive, sending messages does not entail any form of disturbance. Messages can be composed and sent even in meeting and other social or formal gatherings without taking into consideration the ambience noise.
Despite the reasons for this trend, there are a number advantages and disadvantages. A major advantage of text message over phone calls is that it is a documented form of communication. Correspondences through texts are valid and admissible as evidence, whereas phone calls that are not recorded cannot be admissible as evidence. Also, the cost savings is another benefit as it is four times cheaper than making calls.
The main disadvantage is the limit to the number of characters. More often than not people who intend to send messages are limited by the 100 characters limit. This means that people would have to send more than one text messages to get their messages across. Secondly, typing on the mobile device can also stressful as the key pads of phones are quite small which could strain the thumbs of the person typing and further lead to pains.
To conclude, the preference for people to use short messaging services instead of Mobile calls have been brought about by the money they will save and ease, There are advantages such as privacy and documentation and disadvantages which are the stress of typing and character limitation.
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Suggestion: Nairas
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Suggestion: Nairas
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, whereas, while, for instance, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 13.1623246493 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1869.0 1615.20841683 116% => OK
No of words: 368.0 315.596192385 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07880434783 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37987740619 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72601755815 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 176.041082164 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54347826087 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 581.4 506.74238477 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.4980154361 49.4020404114 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.941176471 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6470588235 20.7667163134 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.58823529412 7.06120827912 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => 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: 6.0 3.4128256513 176% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.405139142559 0.244688304435 166% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12189048333 0.084324248473 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.083822647354 0.0667982634062 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.221951237754 0.151304729494 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0326136262979 0.056905535591 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.4159519038 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 78.4519038076 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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