People can go to shops and banks and work with computers, but some people
worry that computers make people get more isolated and lose some social skills.
To what extent do you agree or disagree?
With the development of the internet, computers are used for various purposes including shopping and banking. Some people say that this widespread use of computers for daily tasks will make people more isolated and lose some social skills.
However, I partially disagree with these people, even though there may be fewer opportunities for face-to-face interaction.
There are several reasons why people are worried about a less humane society resulting from the increased use of computers for daily tasks such as going to the shops and banks. Human relations may get too business-oriented as people do not meet the bank tellers or sales advisers in person. Making small talk or jokes with these people is a crucial part of developing social skills, and there are fewer chances for people to practice these skills online. At the same time, it is hard to make friends as people have fewer opportunities to talk to strangers. As a result, people will feel lonely and isolated.
However, I do not think that people will get less sociable as a result of increased online transactions for several reasons. Firstly, people usually do not form friendships with people they meet for business purposes; thus, it is hardly likely that this will deprive people of opportunities to make friends. Secondly, daily tasks like shopping and banking do not require many social skills. The kinds of social skills involved with shopping and banking are rather minor. Loss of opportunities to meet these people for functional purposes does not make people lose social skills in general. Finally, social skills are much more needed in rather long-term relationships, for example, with colleagues, or friends, and family members. As long as they meet face-to-face in workplaces, schools, or social gatherings, people can learn and practice social skills.
In conclusion, I do not believe that using computers for daily tasks will cause people to feel isolated and lack social skills, as they still meet people offline in other formal or private relationships. The use of computers may even help people to form strong personal relationships with friends and family members as they can save time spent for those daily tasks and join private gatherings more often.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, however, may, second, secondly, so, still, thus, for example, in conclusion, in general, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1885.0 1615.20841683 117% => OK
No of words: 363.0 315.596192385 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19283746556 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71480020803 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479338842975 0.561755894193 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 574.2 506.74238477 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 41.6696515655 49.4020404114 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.882352941 106.682146367 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3529411765 20.7667163134 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.88235294118 7.06120827912 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => 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: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.376370423738 0.244688304435 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.141585822618 0.084324248473 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0760875566412 0.0667982634062 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.225622929073 0.151304729494 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.104714714244 0.056905535591 184% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.58950901804 94% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 78.4519038076 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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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.