What are the advantages and disadvantages of using social media sites such as Facebook?
Some people argue whether or not the increasing number of people having a social media account has a positive impact on human life. This essay will explore the pros and cons of this trend with some relevant examples to support.
On the one hand, there are several reasons why using social media such as Facebook is rewarding. One of the positives is that it helps users connect with people all over the world much easier than ever before. Some people who work or study abroad, for example, can keep in touch with their family via text messages or video call of some apps such as Skype, Facebook. In addition, social networks also help people access multi-dimensional information and researches, which is always available to support. Another benefit of social media is that it is a great marketing tool, which helps companies promote their products in a way that convenient and economical.
On the other hand, there are a number of drawbacks of social media that people should take into consideration. Firstly, if the users’ profile is not private enough, hackers can get private information from them and use it for negative purposes including steal bank account. There are many cases that those who use social media lose a huge amount of money just because they click on a link. Secondly, social networking could be time-wasting if people do not manage their online time effectively. Many researchers have shown that the number of people that suffer from internet addiction has gone up significantly, especially for youngsters. As a result, this can disconnect people from the real world and gradually inhibit the development of themselves.
In conclusion, social media could bring about certain benefits, but its negative consequences should not be overlooked.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 19, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
Some people argue whether or not the increasing number of people having ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, look, second, secondly, so, for example, in addition, in conclusion, such as, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 41.998997996 74% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1486.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 290.0 315.596192385 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12413793103 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71542911734 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.603448275862 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 464.4 506.74238477 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => 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: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 21.9475255451 49.4020404114 44% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 106.142857143 106.682146367 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7142857143 20.7667163134 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.92857142857 7.06120827912 141% => 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 : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.202926235392 0.244688304435 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0769260084285 0.084324248473 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0857447824188 0.0667982634062 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118301556348 0.151304729494 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0481038202819 0.056905535591 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 13.0946893788 99% => 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: 12.42 12.4159519038 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.77 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 78.4519038076 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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