Advocates believe that social networks bring bliss and convenient to both individual and society. However, I would argue that its negative impacts outweigh the positive one.
Recently, MeToo, a global movement against sexual harassment and sexual assault, began with the hashtag MeToo on Twitter, spread virally through social networks, is a prominent example of social media positive effects. By connecting people and equipping them a voice, social media have become a global force for plurality, democracy and progress.
However, these very same platforms are accused of undermining democracy and becoming an invaluable tool for politicians seeking office. Firstly, social media giants spread fake news, which reinforces political polarisation and create bubbles feeding bias information confirming their existing belief. A study published in Nature 2012, determined that around 340000 people probably turned up to vote in the congressional election of 2010 as a message appearing on their Facebook, and were likely to do so if any of their friends shared the call-to-action. Also, the 2016 US presidential election result has been in dispute as fake new wildly spread throughout its campaign. Secondly, social networks violate users' data privacy right to make a profit. By using smart technologies like AI, big data, machine learning to study massive data collecting from its two billion users, Facebook nowadays can enable campaigns to manipulate voters by group sharing similar interests and profiles by saying different things to different groups without anyone recognising.
With regard to each individual, social networks are believed to associate with the increasing ratio of mental illness and emotional issues. These platforms exacerbate anxiety and depression, deprive users of sleep, exposed them to hate speech, extreme contents, creates worries about their body images, and fear of missing out. These problems seem to be particularly severe among frequent users. An investigation conducted by social scientists at Humboldt University and Darmstadt's Technical University found that the root causes that the most prevalent emotion aroused by using Facebook is envy. Endlessly comparing themselves with friends who have doctored their photograph, and amplified their achievements can leave Facebook users be green with envy.
Once hailed as the promoter of freedom, social network these days are instead attacked for many reasons including damaging democracy, violating user's privacy and undermining people well-being. We should consider carefully whether to decrease our time spending on these platforms or not.
- Many people join distance learning programs (study material, post, TV, Internet) and study at home, but some people think that it cannot bring the same benefits as attending colleges or universities does. Do you agree or disagree? 89
- Many people believe that it is important to always tell the truth. In your opinion, is it ever acceptable to tell a lie?Explain your answer giving reasons and specific examples. 78
- Some people say that online learning is the most effective and convenient way to learn.Others say that online learning will be never be as effective as learning at a real school, in person.Discuss both these views and give your own opinion. 11
- Many people believe that social networking sites (such as Facebook) have had a huge negative impact on both individuals and society.To what extent do you agree? 89
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, well, with regard to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2246.0 1615.20841683 139% => OK
No of words: 389.0 315.596192385 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.77377892031 5.12529762239 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44106776838 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76651595631 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 264.0 176.041082164 150% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.678663239075 0.561755894193 121% => OK
syllable_count: 690.3 506.74238477 136% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.8983234571 49.4020404114 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.117647059 106.682146367 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8823529412 20.7667163134 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.52941176471 7.06120827912 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 3.9879759519 276% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.173458222433 0.244688304435 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0543921799045 0.084324248473 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0622866906591 0.0667982634062 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107998954378 0.151304729494 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0690792062772 0.056905535591 121% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 13.0946893788 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 32.22 50.2224549098 64% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.48 12.4159519038 133% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.94 8.58950901804 127% => OK
difficult_words: 153.0 78.4519038076 195% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 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.