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.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
The idea that mass media and the internet are the trends behind shorter attention spans is a complex one. Technology has been both a blessing and a curse for our generation and it is worth noting both sides of this issue.
In today's day and age it is not uncommon to see children under the age of four know how to fully operate a smartphone, and graduate to owning their own smartphone by the age of six. They can blindly navigate their phones before even knowing how to read, and when one app gets boring, they tap the home-screen and switch to another. Trends in ADHD/ADD have risen in the last decade and many blame the smartphone and internet era for this. By the time these iPhone babies reach middle school, they have trouble concentrating in classes and behavioral issues. Add on social media apps like Instagram and Twitter where kids get live world updates at their fingertips and a MacBook and you have successfully created a generation of lazy leaders.
Of course, the couch potato phenomena is not limited to just children. The negative effects of mass media and the internet are seen with every age group. Take millennials for example. This generation is often seen as less hardworking than their parents and demand more from others. Food delivery apps and drive-through laundromats are now a trend and when someone wants to complain about their poor fast-food service, they take to Twitter. However, it is unfair to say that mass media and the internet are always disadvantageous.
The internet was a huge step for mankind as it instantly allowed for innovation and productivity. Strenuous and time-consuming tasks were relieved by a simple click of a search button, where users can receive enormous amounts of information in milliseconds. Take a Google search of "The Houston Rockets" and thousands of search results will ensue. Someone familiar with the mass media era will know how to swiftly maneuver through these overwhelming results and find what they are looking for in probably a minute.
All in all, the endless amount of news and information spitting from our television and smartphones is overwhelming and detrimental. While it is important for our future generation to be able to navigate the Web, it should also be a goal to limit screen and media time to avoid generating a lazy society.
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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 lar 80
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'second', 'so', 'while', 'for example', 'of course']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.283752860412 0.238963963785 119% => OK
Verbs: 0.146453089245 0.154291517835 95% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0686498855835 0.0886310499679 77% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0389016018307 0.0506014161523 77% => OK
Pronouns: 0.045766590389 0.0449626384858 102% => OK
Prepositions: 0.105263157895 0.123526278965 85% => OK
Participles: 0.0343249427918 0.0379742944744 90% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.68919939556 2.82910677849 95% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0320366132723 0.0316879551592 101% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0014075125626 0% => More particles wanted.
Determiners: 0.0983981693364 0.0950106342287 104% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0114416475973 0.0245489744465 47% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0205949656751 0.0157978311181 130% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2346.0 2899.98275862 81% => OK
No of words: 398.0 478.390804598 83% => OK
Chars per words: 5.89447236181 6.0591788892 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46653527281 4.65681771538 96% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.331658291457 0.369966551584 90% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.256281407035 0.285172536893 90% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.168341708543 0.207245337619 81% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0979899497487 0.136322040163 72% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68919939556 2.82910677849 95% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 234.298850575 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565326633166 0.492565540709 115% => OK
Word variations: 65.7820695229 56.8184620615 116% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 21.1264367816 90% => OK
Sentence length: 20.9473684211 23.7468607788 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.340488762 62.0618507366 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.473684211 143.81877709 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9473684211 23.7468607788 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.526315789474 0.728815259664 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.87931034483 102% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.71264367816 0% => OK
Readability: 46.5755091246 52.2641144681 89% => OK
Elegance: 1.83168316832 1.64547068916 111% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.37371179904 0.39480681544 95% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0714638763947 0.11556216369 62% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0495523629417 0.0736162880345 67% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.508292291559 0.531340600358 96% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.128955554519 0.15197228837 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.140055559253 0.158818324754 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0797048944412 0.0851127212816 94% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.321101756973 0.388921930462 83% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0546347159979 0.0677916285025 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.245736162767 0.28015025965 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0432267598585 0.0610219844235 71% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.8591954023 55% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.30459770115 151% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.96264367816 101% => OK
Positive topic words: 3.0 8.10632183908 37% => More positive topic words wanted.
Negative topic words: 5.0 3.93390804598 127% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 3.04597701149 98% => OK
Total topic words: 11.0 15.0862068966 73% => OK
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Rates: 87.5 out of 100
Scores by essay E-rater: 5.25 Out of 6