With the rise of the internet more and more people are getting their news from social media platforms.
Do the advantages of this trend outweigh the disadvantages?
The growing popularity of the Internet has been a facilitator in propagating news as people can receive them on numerous social media platforms. Although this trend has certain merits, its disadvantages have taken precedence over the advantages.
The primary beneficial effect of acquiring news through social media sites is that they provide immediate updates for online users. Indeed, numerous news propagators have opted for social media platforms as their first method of distributing information due to the all-time high frequency and number of users. Moreover, compared to other traditional news distributors like news programs or newspapers, updating information on social media can be easier and swifter since people just need to write simple statuses without pieces of evidence. Therefore, people are more likely to receive the latest news on social media like Facebook and Twitter rather than through other news broadcasters. These instant updates, as a consequence, allow recipients to gain access to the latest current affairs.
Despite the aforementioned advantage, collecting news on social media sites poses a number of threats for the users. First of all, online readers are susceptible to several fake news due to a lack of clarity examination. Mendacious propaganda is likely to generate misconceptions among users. These fake news can spread at an unprecedented rate if interactions with the information are enhanced. To illustrate, fake information of Covid-19 vaccines' potential impacts on humans' health has been shared by numerous users which has resulted in vaccination objection, impeding authorities from reach herd immunity. Secondly, the overload of information on social media platforms can initiate confusion for users. Since there are numerous versions shared online, it prevented people from discriminating between valid and invalid information.
In conclusion, the accessibility to fresh news on social media can be a merit to users, yet the risks of fake news and information overwhelming are much more considerable.
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| 2021-08-31 | diepanh142 | 78 | view |
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- Some people think that the purpose of TV news programs is to entertain viewers Others believe that news programs should be educational and informative What do you think the purpose of TV news programs is Support your opinion with reasons and examples 61
- Youngsters now admire and imitate media and sports personalities even though they do not always set a good example Do you think that this is a positive or negative development Your essay should be about 300 to 350 words 89
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 478, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'humans'' or 'human's'?
Suggestion: humans'; human's
... Covid-19 vaccines potential impacts on humans health has been shared by numerous user...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 7.30460921844 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 8.0 24.0651302605 33% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1758.0 1615.20841683 109% => OK
No of words: 308.0 315.596192385 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.70779220779 5.12529762239 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09178886312 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.584415584416 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 561.6 506.74238477 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.456394598 49.4020404114 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.571428571 106.682146367 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.07142857143 7.06120827912 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
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: 0.284649985823 0.244688304435 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0977250278962 0.084324248473 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0570972104914 0.0667982634062 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.181866263889 0.151304729494 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0332172689728 0.056905535591 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 13.0946893788 126% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 32.22 50.2224549098 64% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.84 12.4159519038 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.06 8.58950901804 117% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 78.4519038076 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 9.78957915832 128% => 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: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 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.