Social media has replaced the traditional methods of communicating, and people use more and more social media to communicate, to follow news and events. Do the advantages of social outweigh its disadvantages?
With the rise of the internet a huge number of social networking sites has emerged over the last two decades that offer instant communication and affordable entertainment. They facilitate the way we communicate and alter the methods of getting news. However, some people claim that there are several disadvantages of social media that we have to consider. In this essay, I would argue that benefits of social media outweigh its drawbacks in terms of its cheap price of usage and availability.
To begin with, social media or social networking sites tend to provide affordable communication with people in remote locations and almost unlimited source of entertainment. To be precise, in the past people used to contact with their relatives abroad via landline telephones or by writing letters. In most cases, international calls cost them a fortune, letters took too much time until they were received. Social media have revolutionized this process and now it is just a matter of few clicks thanks to the internet and social media websites, like Facebook, Telegram or Instagram. Besides, people can have fun and enjoy a variety of entertaining videos or activities on social media.
Another main advantage of social media is its accessible usage. Here I am referring to the fact that, these social networking web sites are available and can be accessed in the majority of countries around the world. For example, one can share their memories with their close people whenever or wherever they want. Furthermore, business people tend to use it on order to be aware of current affairs and news or to access their files remotely due to the speed of social media. The only thing that is required for social media is the internet.
On the other hand, there are some people who hold the view that social media causes breakdowns in family relationships and sense of isolation. It is their view that excessive usage of these sites is likely to encourage people not to socialize, but to stay at home instead. Furthermore, social media, they argue, can be a cause for divorces in some cases as spouses may have quarrels because of it.
To conclude, although there are some probable cons, such as sense of feeling cut-off, pros of communication and easy access far outweigh them. In my opinion, providing people know the limit when they utilize social media, they are highly unlikely to experience its negatives.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, furthermore, however, may, so, for example, such as, in most cases, in my opinion, in some cases, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 10.4138276553 173% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 24.0651302605 158% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 60.0 41.998997996 143% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2014.0 1615.20841683 125% => OK
No of words: 400.0 315.596192385 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.035 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.472135955 4.20363070211 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73311177964 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 176.041082164 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.555 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 655.2 506.74238477 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.76152304609 210% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.552621259 49.4020404114 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.0 106.682146367 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0526315789 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.57894736842 7.06120827912 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.382878693939 0.244688304435 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.135327064567 0.084324248473 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0874719796341 0.0667982634062 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.22945377912 0.151304729494 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0561304880872 0.056905535591 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.0946893788 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 50.2224549098 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.4159519038 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 78.4519038076 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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