People today prefer to socialize online to spend time with friends in local community. Do advantages outweigh disadvantages?
It is no doubt true that social media are enjoying increasing popularity and people, young people in particular, would like to use them to communicate with their friends, not only locally, but also nationally or even internationally. While I accept that this new communication tool can sometimes have a positive influence on its users, I believe that it is more likely to cause a harmful impact.
On the one hand, communication using social media can be cost-effective and energy-saving. People pay for phone calls but they generally do not pay for the internet. This is because the internet coverage is widespread and people can get easy access to wifi, which is almost free for individuals. On top of that, friends can communicate time and real without taking the trouble to travel together to talk about something, which is an incomparable advantage, that other communication tools can hardly offer. This really saves a lot of energy.
However, I believe that these benefits are outweighed by the drawbacks. Social media can be highly addictive. Research has shown that people check their Wechat---a social app equivalent to Twitter---more than fifty times a day. This can have a devastating impact on people’s work and study, because they cannot concentrate for a long time. Moreover, when people try to get to know what their friends are up to by browsing the friend circle on the Wechat, it is likely that they may get false information. The other day an acquaintance appealed to borrow some money through social media, saying that something misfortunate happened to her family. I was about to transfer money when I learned that her Wechat was kidnapped by someone evil. This is unbelievable.
In conclusion, it seems to me that the potential dangers of social media are more significant than the possible benefits.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, moreover, really, so, while, in conclusion, in particular, no doubt, on top of that
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 7.30460921844 205% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 37.0 24.0651302605 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 41.998997996 81% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1534.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 301.0 315.596192385 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09634551495 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97735221602 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.604651162791 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 485.1 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 5.43587174349 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.2904567125 49.4020404114 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.875 106.682146367 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8125 20.7667163134 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06120827912 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.150356457895 0.244688304435 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0460588357831 0.084324248473 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0335718819177 0.0667982634062 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0816948241523 0.151304729494 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0383185083664 0.056905535591 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 78.4519038076 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, moreover, really, so, while, in conclusion, in particular, no doubt, on top of that
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 7.30460921844 205% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 37.0 24.0651302605 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 34.0 41.998997996 81% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1534.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 301.0 315.596192385 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09634551495 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97735221602 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 176.041082164 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.604651162791 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 485.1 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 5.43587174349 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.2904567125 49.4020404114 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.875 106.682146367 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8125 20.7667163134 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06120827912 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.150356457895 0.244688304435 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0460588357831 0.084324248473 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0335718819177 0.0667982634062 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0816948241523 0.151304729494 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0383185083664 0.056905535591 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 50.2224549098 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.4159519038 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 78.4519038076 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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.