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.
- 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.
- The striking feature of the new social media is that they are no longer very social.
- Some of the consequences of this are welcome. Political campaigners say they have to tone down their message to win over private groups.
- Debate is moving to closed platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram.
- 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
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.
- 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.
- The striking feature of the new social media is that they are no longer very social.
- Some of the consequences of this are welcome. Political campaigners say they have to tone down their message to win over private groups.
- Debate is moving to closed platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram.
- 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
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