Mass media and the internet have caused people’s attention spans to get shorter. However, the overall effect has been positive: while people are less able to focus on one thing, they more than make up for it with an enhanced ability to sort through large quantities of information and find what’s important.
As someone has said it right, the Internet has transformed this vast world into a "Global Village". However, this advantage of the Internet has come to us with a cost. As the author reports, "Mass media and the internet have caused people's attention spans to get shorter.". However, the author soon takes a turn and claims that the overall effect has been positive by taking the example of the enhanced ability to sort through large chunks of information and identify what is essential.
However, it seems that the author is comparing a small chunk of positive with a large boulder of negative impacts that has deleterious effects for humanity's mental capability as a whole.
Technology, of any kind, is meant to ease our work, by merely carrying out the hard work that could be automated. An example would be of the calculator. However, this could lead to an adverse effect of human users becoming over-dependent on a calculator for doing simple number addition. The same device that was meant to improve our productivity has lead to a diminishing of the mental capacity of its users.
Internet, just like how our brain is connected with millions of neurons, is interlinked with people and their systems all around the world. This helps it in adapting it on its own, for a more accessible and efficient usage by the users. So if today, we may boast of how we can easily segregate and choose the right information from the ocean of knowledge (Internet), sooner, there would be an intelligent agent/website that could help us in doing the sorting work with much better efficiency. And not much later, we will realize that the same skill which we learnt from the Internet has now been diminished by an Intelligent service, germinating from our Internet.
A similar example would be the advent of Mobile phones in the late Nineteen Nineties. Cell phone users would memorize the phone numbers of all their family members and close friends. Soon, we had a time when everyone would boast of their mental memory prowess, by showing the number of phone numbers they could remember and recall. However, as soon as the advent of Silicon memory cards came, which could be used to store contact numbers, everyone utilized it. Moreover, it was not too late, when the same user who could remember a dozen phone numbers, realized now he remembers a maximum of two to three cell numbers.
Internet, just like any other technology, which on one side has made our physical world a better place, given us lightening speed of communications and various benefits, has also snatched away from our mental prowess and capabilities which prevailed in us since ancient times.
Hence, Internet has become that invention which we made to improve our efficiency and productivity but has also made us its slave by having deleterious effects on our brain and ripping us from our necessary mental capabilities which we had since ancient times.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 24, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'rights'?
Suggestion: rights
As someone has said it right, the Internet has transformed this vast...
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Line 1, column 81, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...et has transformed this vast world into a 'Global Village'. However, th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, may, moreover, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 33.0505617978 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2454.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 494.0 442.535393258 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96761133603 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71445763274 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70804810924 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 248.0 215.323595506 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502024291498 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 773.1 704.065955056 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.9385414512 60.3974514979 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.7 118.986275619 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.4 5.21951772744 46% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.197060405477 0.243740707755 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0651250405272 0.0831039109588 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0856081274172 0.0758088955206 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0966256317645 0.150359130593 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.105549512865 0.0667264976115 158% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 100.480337079 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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