Many people believe that social networking sites (such as Facebook) have had a huge negative impact on both individuals and society. To what extent do you agree?

These days, it is not uncommon to see people posting hourly updates and photos for just about anything and everything. Messages and updates start pouring in as soon as people get up and continue until late in the night. Irrespective of the age group, almost everyone seems to be hooked onto social networking sites. In my opinion, this trend is harmful for both individuals and society. This essay discusses this trend a bit further and provides supporting arguments and examples of harmful affect this trend has brought in general.

Youth and young children, in specific, are obsessively addicted to social networking sites and instant messaging apps. It is not safe and appropriate for children to be posting and sharing personal photographs and whereabouts on such sites. They feel it to be trendy to be active in the online world. Unsocial elements take advantage of such sites to keep track of their activities and photos. People boast about hundreds and thousands of online friends and followers, but in real life, such people feel very lonely and emotionally vulnerable. This obsessiveness has cross all limits and in some cases has even resulted in users being medically impacted with mental stress and depression.

While these sites promote themselves as Social sites, but their impact on the societies is very negative. It is so annoying to see people in family and social gatherings being glued to their phones and busy “chit chating” with online and social friends, ignoring family members and relatives sitting in front. Rather than making people more social, instead these sites are pushing people towards solitary life styles. Face to face interactions are getting replaced with online updates and posts. Online and cyber crime is on the rise – thanks to reckless use and obsessiveness towards social site and apps.

To conclude, although social networking sites were invented and developed with the objective of brining individuals and societies together, reality is totally different. It is high time that individuals become more responsible in their use of social sites and get more connected with real people and in real life instead of being more socially active in online world.

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Average: 7.7 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...very lonely and emotionally vulnerable. This obsessiveness has cross all limits ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, so, while, in general, in my opinion, in some cases

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 10.5418719212 180% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 6.10837438424 0% => OK
Conjunction : 32.0 8.36945812808 382% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 1.0 5.94088669951 17% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 20.9802955665 100% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 31.9359605911 150% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 5.75862068966 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1874.0 1207.87684729 155% => OK
No of words: 357.0 242.827586207 147% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.24929971989 5.00649968141 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34677393335 3.92707691288 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63377426208 2.71678728327 97% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 139.433497537 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.540616246499 0.580463131201 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 585.0 379.143842365 154% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.57093596059 102% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.6157635468 195% => OK
Article: 0.0 1.56157635468 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.71428571429 117% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.931034482759 215% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 3.65517241379 109% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 12.6551724138 142% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.5024630542 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.3550981986 50.4703680194 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.111111111 104.977214359 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8333333333 20.9669160288 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.33333333333 7.25397266985 46% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.33497536946 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 6.9802955665 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 2.75862068966 217% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 2.91625615764 240% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.197416221813 0.242375264174 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0644741600636 0.0925447433944 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0424898215316 0.071462118173 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123058109791 0.151781067708 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0211553366119 0.0609392437508 35% => 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 12.6369458128 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 53.1260098522 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.9458128079 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.17 11.5310837438 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.32886699507 108% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 55.0591133005 182% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.94827586207 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.3980295567 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 77.7777777778 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 70.0 Out of 90
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