Computers, internet, e-mails, faxes, scanners - : What are these devices and why are these modern day electronic monsters such rapidly spreading like a worm influencing our lives and taking over our minds? Well this is a question that makes us ponder over and find an answer.
Computers un-questionably have become a commodity and a necessity in the present day life. Whether you walk into an office, a shopping mall, libraries, schools and of course homes, wherever you go, you will find these small boxes operating and helping people with their problems and finding solutions to diverse levels of difficulties. Computers are the easiest and most convenient source of not only information but also communication, entertainments, education. You say that, it can do every possible thing which men used to dream about in yesteryears.
Like everything else in this world computers have their own advantages (or disadvantages). If you are looking for a good job in the other corner of the world, you can sit down and relax and search for it on the net using your personal computer and can find that there is a job that suits you. You can work on a project using computers and can search for related information through the Internet. Children can play games and can enjoy themselves with the help of computers. Movies can be watched and good music can be listened to.
Business also takes place on computers. You can buy and sell whatever you feel like in this world. Computers open a new window of a whole lot, new opportunities even for laymen giving them a stupendous and accelerating chance of proving their capabilities. ISPs have helped people a great deal to get in touch with the outside world and get any sort of useful information that could help them to achieve their goals. Communication through the computers is also easier and much cheaper as compared to telephones or posting letters. Electronic mails, chats, and messages, all help people to get in contact with their relatives and also with the help of web can watch their loved ones' lives and at very low cost. Just with as many advantages, there is also another side of this so called carefree and magic world. Just when you talk so optimistically about the benefits and remarkable prospects of this magic machine you cannot turn a deaf ear to its harmful impacts and adversities that this wonderful and mind-loving piece of equipment brings along with itself advantages. To start with, like a terpentine that makes the roots of a tree hollow and eventually shatters it, in the same way this machine eats up all of your useful and healthy time. Strain on eyes, weakening them and making children stuck up their heads into the screen all day eventually leading them with headache. Talking with the strangers on the net has created so many horrifying incidents that have even led to child abuse and even deaths of many, destroying happiness of so many families, especially in the Western world. Visiting of illegal and unnecessary websites not only by adults but also by children has adverse effects on their mental growth and character. Therefore, watchful eyes should be kept on children while they use the net. Bank scams credit frauds, illegal access to people's money, all have been some of the many side-effects on the so-called extraordinary and breath-taking man made-processing units.
Fortunate or unfortunate, in whatever way you place it, computers now-a-days have gained so much control on our daily life that many cannot even imagine life without it. So much depends on it. Big institutions work on its expense. Every single thing is being computerised now-a-days and everyone should learn to operate this modern-day wonder of the world.
Life without computers is like a life without colours. It has indeed become a necessity of modern-day life despite all its ill-effects.
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