Some people believe that our ever-increasing use of technology significantly reduces our opportunities for human interaction. Other people believe that technology provides us with new and better ways to communicate and connect with one another.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
Technology is what paves the way for development, especially in the 21st century where, rapid innovation and developments happen every day. The technological advances can have a positive effect, by making our life easier or it can even affect us negatively. I mostly support the view that technology provides us with greater advantages in communication with new and better ways, for the following reasons.
To begin with, significant development in technology has made the world smaller, in that, we can communicate with people around the world, irrelevant of the distance or location, as long as they have access to such technology. The 21st century saw the boom of technological advances such as the telephone, cell-phone and the best of all, The Internet. The internet has enabled people to connect with each other easily and efficiently. For example, people in America can contact their friends or family in London, instantly, with the help of telephone or video conferencing using the internet. Before such technologies were available, it was difficult to transfer information from one place to another, with people having to deal with late arrival of mail or telegram. Thus, technology certainly has innovated new means of communicating with people around us.
Similarly, new inventions in transportation technology have made connecting with people much easier. With the development of extremely fast trains and planes, we can move around the world quickly and be able to connect with their friends and families around the world much easily. For example, people can fly from one state to another within a few hours or even minutes. In the old days, when cars were the primary means of transportation, people would refrain from attending different events because of the long distance. But in the current scenario, it would be fair to say that technology has made everyone more reachable with new and better ways.
However, we cannot deny that technology has also affected human interaction in an adverse way. Since, most people are engaging in their mobile phone or computers, typing their messages on a social network, face to face interaction has decreased gradually. People, especially the current youth, feel more easy in messaging with each other instead of communicating in real life. This has shown to increase social anxiety in some people, making them uncomfortable in social situations. People would rather try to find satisfaction online than share their thoughts in the real world. So, technology has indeed decreased social interaction.
In conclusion, technological advances are important because it helps us humans achieve new feats but its detrimental effects should be kept in check. While technological advances certainly have helped make communication fast and simple, the negative social implications on the current youths cannot be ignored and proper plans and policies to mitigate this should be developed.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Message: Consider replacing "in an adverse way" with adverb for "adverse"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, similarly, so, thus, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 33.0505617978 82% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2485.0 2235.4752809 111% => OK
No of words: 463.0 442.535393258 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36717062635 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63868890866 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92531194993 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 252.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544276457883 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 777.6 704.065955056 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.273897043 60.3974514979 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.954545455 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0454545455 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.63636363636 5.21951772744 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.394275502337 0.243740707755 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118540483605 0.0831039109588 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0706060037683 0.0758088955206 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.211476766487 0.150359130593 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0797229463471 0.0667264976115 119% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.1392134831 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 100.480337079 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.5 11.8971910112 139% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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