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.
There have been debates on whether the ubiquitous use of technology prevents people from interact with others. Some people claim that people lose a lot of chances for human interaction due to overly reliance on technology, which others contend that technology connects people with one another in new and better ways. As far as I am concerned, I agree with the latter more for the following reasons.
Some might argue that people's addiction on technology such as smart phone and computer dramatically reduce their opportunities to interact with human. Admittedly, people who are addicted to computer games might seldom hang out with friends or even hardly leave their own houses; the only persons they would meet in a day are probably the delivery guys for pizza. It is also true that people who highly rely on text messages might feel uncomfortable to talk to other people in person. However, these are just some extreme cases that only happen when people abuse the technology. We should not ignore that technology also brings us a great amount of ways to interact with people.
Primarily, technology allows us to easily keep in touch with friends, families or colleague despite we live far away from them. In previous generations, it takes months for a mail to be delivered. While nowadays, our text messages only take few seconds to be sent. This wonderful privilege of tech era effectively shortens the “distance” between people. My work experience in Cisco can be a good showcase to further illustrate this. Many of my teammates are working from India currently. Yet, we still cooperate well because we have online meeting once a week to keep everyone on the same page. Therefore, technology truly serve as an effective and revolutionary way to connect people.
In addition, technology provides chances for us to get connected with people from another part of the world. Take my experience of learning English as an example. In order to improve my speaking skills, I found a language exchange partner on a website one year ago. Although my partner lived in San Diego and I lived in Taiwan at that time, we managed to have regular video chat via Skype. Had the Internet not being invented, I would definitely lose a lot of chances to talk to native English speakers. Thus, technology such as social websites and Apps increase our chance to meet new and different people.
In conclusion, although I concede that, in some cases, technology is the hindrance for people to interact with one another more. Yet, as long as we take advantage of technology and use it properly, we can inarguably benefit from it.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, second, so, still, therefore, thus, well, while, in addition, in conclusion, such as, in some cases
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: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalization wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2191.0 2235.4752809 98% => OK
No of words: 441.0 442.535393258 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96825396825 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58257569496 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74282324902 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 252.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.571428571429 0.4932671777 116% => OK
syllable_count: 711.0 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.975778099 60.3974514979 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.2916666667 118.986275619 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.375 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.91666666667 5.21951772744 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.357723591219 0.243740707755 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0940085479765 0.0831039109588 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0947349197123 0.0758088955206 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.208452072668 0.150359130593 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0844314459213 0.0667264976115 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 14.1392134831 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 100.480337079 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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