Studies suggest that many teenagers these days prefer socialising online to meeting one another in person.
Why do you think this is the case?
What measures could be taken to encourage teenagers to spend more time meeting one another in person?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
The prevalence of youngsters using social networks for communication instead of communicating directly is increasing. There are several reasons for this, but also a number of measures we can take to alleviate this phenomenon.
First, one of the possible major factors is the development of technology, which led to the advent of a wide range of applications with marvellous images, interactive features, and many functions. For example, they can play online games while talking to each other. Besides, if they want to ask friends for the needed information, all they need to do is use a messenger app, such as Facebook Messenger, and they can have the answer almost instantly. As a result, they may save time for other activities, ranging from studying to recreation. Secondly, it is easier to keep in touch with friends moving from school to a new one or even to other countries. Because when they use social networking sites such as Facebook or Instagram, they can update their status themselves for their friends and reverse, or they can use video call apps to talk directly. And this way of meeting costs a limited amount of money compared to other face-to-face meetings.
However, there are various steps that can be taken to lessen the problem. First, the government should use the media like TV, newspapers, and radio to spread propaganda about how young people's excessive use of social networks is harming their physical and mental health. Secondly, parents can help mitigate this issue by supervising the time spent by children on their phones or computers.
To summarise, we can say that technology development and convenience, as well as limited costs, are creating this situation. However, governments and parents working together can reduce the impact.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, well, while, for example, such as, as a result, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1487.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 288.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16319444444 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11953428781 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84235483345 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.618055555556 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 456.3 506.74238477 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 0.809619238477 741% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.3410713942 49.4020404114 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.214285714 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5714285714 20.7667163134 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.92857142857 7.06120827912 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => 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: 0.0806417857231 0.244688304435 33% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0323399137527 0.084324248473 38% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0272389019384 0.0667982634062 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0455025514849 0.151304729494 30% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.01854128417 0.056905535591 33% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 13.0946893788 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.18 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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