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The sentences given below, when properly sequenced, form a coherent paragraph. Each sentence is labelled with a number. Decide on the most logical order and enter the sequence of numbers in the space provided.

  1. Meanwhile, people are posting less. The share of Americans who say they enjoy documenting their life online has fallen from 40 per cent to 28 per cent since 2020.
  2. The striking feature of the new social media is that they are no longer very social.
  3. Some of the consequences of this are welcome. Political campaigners say they have to tone down their message to win over private groups.
  4. Debate is moving to closed platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram.
  5. Inspired by TikTok, apps like Facebook increasingly serve a diet of clips selected by artificial intelligence according to a user’s viewing behaviour, not their social connections

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Solution

✅ Correct Answer: 25143

The passage talks about how social media platforms are becoming less social

Link A (2 → 5): Sentence 2 introduces that social media is "no longer very social," and sentence 5 explains why through AI-selected content replacing social connections.

Link B (5 → 1): "Meanwhile" in sentence 1 shows a parallel trend happening alongside the AI-driven content shift described in sentence 5.

Link C (1 → 4): Both sentences describe the movement away from public social media engagement toward private platforms.

Link D (4 → 3): "Some of the consequences of this" in sentence 3 specifically refers back to the closed platform movement mentioned in sentence 4.


Introduction: Sentence 2 is the introducing sentence because it presents the main thesis about social media's declining social nature.

Conclusion: Sentence 3 is the concluding sentence because it discusses the consequences and implications of the described trends.


Assembling: Starting with the thesis, explaining the cause, showing parallel trends, then describing consequences of the shift.

Hence the correct order is 25143

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