Mass media and the internet have caused people’s attention spans to get shorter. However, the overall effect has been positive: while people are less able to focus on one thing, they more than make up for it with an enhanced ability to sort through lar

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Mass media and the internet have caused people’s attention spans to get shorter. However, the overall effect has been positive: while people are less able to focus on one thing, they more than make up for it with an enhanced ability to sort through large quantities of information and find what’s important.

People's attention has lessened due to frequent use of internet, but have made them more effective in finding information which matters. However, when we look at the other side we will realize that decrease in attention spans is more deadly as compared to the good benefits data analysis provides.

Diminishing effect of attention span has a much larger impact when compared to increase in data analysis ability. People addicted to social media though might have learned the ability to analyse and find relevant information, but their decrease in attention period has much more daunting effect on the overall quality of society. A research which was recently published in Times of India gave a positive correlation between probability of having a accident and being an addict to social media. Interestingly the study noted that, a simple honk would make these addicts to get distracted and thus increase the chances of accident. Decrease in attention span has made people's life difficult, they can't make necessary decisions in adequate time which is catastrophic for the society.

People, frequently acquainted with social media have mere tangential ideas about main concerns of society. They don't know the complete story about the facts/news that matter and base their decisions on distorted and incomplete facts. I read a news article that someone shared on Facebook, it suggested that the particle Hydron collider based in Geneva, Switzerland which was due to launch in 2012 could eventually turn the whole earth into a black-hole and people started to object against such an endevour. Protestors conclusion was based on the incomplete and incompetent fact that Mayans calendar ended in 2012. Ability to skim through information can have daunting effect, as people tend to neglect few minute yet necessary details.

To sum it up, while it may be essential to skim down vast variety of information available on internet. However, it is not necessarily advantageous when compared to the bigger problems of diminishing attention spans.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'benefits'' or 'benefit's'?
Suggestion: benefits'; benefit's
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Suggestion: an
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Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...as about main concerns of society. They dont know the complete story about the facts...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'so', 'thus', 'while']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.25787965616 0.240241500013 107% => OK
Verbs: 0.180515759312 0.157235817809 115% => OK
Adjectives: 0.106017191977 0.0880659088768 120% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0429799426934 0.0497285424764 86% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0343839541547 0.0444667217837 77% => OK
Prepositions: 0.120343839542 0.12292977631 98% => OK
Participles: 0.054441260745 0.0406280797675 134% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.75999796779 2.79330140395 99% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0401146131805 0.030933414821 130% => OK
Particles: 0.00573065902579 0.0016655270985 344% => OK
Determiners: 0.0687679083095 0.0997080785238 69% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0171919770774 0.0249443105267 69% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0200573065903 0.0148568991511 135% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2040.0 2732.02544248 75% => OK
No of words: 324.0 452.878318584 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.2962962963 6.0361032391 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.58838876751 92% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.413580246914 0.366273622748 113% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.33024691358 0.280924506359 118% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.259259259259 0.200843997647 129% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.148148148148 0.132149295362 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75999796779 2.79330140395 99% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 219.290929204 90% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.611111111111 0.48968727796 125% => OK
Word variations: 70.7059987427 55.4138127331 128% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 20.6194690265 68% => OK
Sentence length: 23.1428571429 23.380412469 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.2166592457 59.4972553346 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.714285714 141.124799967 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1428571429 23.380412469 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.571428571429 0.674092028746 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.21349557522 77% => OK
Readability: 56.1675485009 51.4728631049 109% => OK
Elegance: 1.67777777778 1.64882698954 102% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.403522079123 0.391690518653 103% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.121672193134 0.123202303941 99% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0719483719306 0.077325440228 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.532443564398 0.547984918172 97% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.141688890354 0.149214159877 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.156578739462 0.161403998019 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0611799672936 0.0892212321368 69% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.29367810539 0.385218514788 76% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0873082226917 0.0692045440612 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.261277535124 0.275328986314 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0397989449411 0.0653680567796 61% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.4325221239 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.30420353982 94% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88274336283 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 7.22455752212 69% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 11.0 13.5995575221 81% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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