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.
It is proven that many young adults prefer networking through the screen rather than face-to-face interaction. While there are several reasons for this situation, many measures could be considered to motivate teenagers to meet up physically.
There are many reasons why teenagers like to have online social relationships. One of them is due to the modern technological advancement nowadays. Everyone has a smartphone, and many people, especially the youngsters, have several social media accounts, which allows them to make friends more easily. They may find new friends with some shared interest or hobbies, and may also get updated about their old friends through their posts on social media. For example, I often share about my day on social media so my family and friends could know how I am doing. Another reason might be that criminal rates are increasing every year, hence talking and making friends with someone they first meet might be intimidating and uncomfortable for some because of the safety reason.
To encourage young adults to have more physical gatherings, parents can help prepare some activities at home and invite their children’s friends over. This not only allows teenagers to hang out with their friends in person, but parents could also know who their children associate with, hence understand them even more. In class, teachers can give projects or assignments that require students to work in pairs or in groups, which makes them interact with one another more. Meeting with new people with the same hobbies after talking through the screen could be exciting, provided that the meeting conditions are safe and comfortable. This means for teenagers to meet face-to-face more freely but safely, parents or the school should teach them to inform regularly while hanging out and how to protect themselves in unexpected situations.
In conclusion, various reasons can lead to the preferred online socialising in youngsters. Making teenagers more willing to have physical interaction requires the contribution from both parents and the schools.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, may, so, while, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 41.998997996 112% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1751.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 327.0 315.596192385 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35474006116 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70514491543 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574923547401 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 526.5 506.74238477 104% => 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: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
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: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.5421043142 49.4020404114 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.733333333 106.682146367 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.46666666667 7.06120827912 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.261719564665 0.244688304435 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0908627699091 0.084324248473 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0601888149962 0.0667982634062 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161574429722 0.151304729494 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0291935976438 0.056905535591 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.0946893788 112% => 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: 13.75 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, may, so, while, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 41.998997996 112% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1751.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 327.0 315.596192385 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35474006116 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25242769721 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70514491543 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574923547401 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 526.5 506.74238477 104% => 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: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
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: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.5421043142 49.4020404114 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.733333333 106.682146367 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8 20.7667163134 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.46666666667 7.06120827912 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.261719564665 0.244688304435 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0908627699091 0.084324248473 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0601888149962 0.0667982634062 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161574429722 0.151304729494 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0291935976438 0.056905535591 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.0946893788 112% => 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: 13.75 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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.