As you know nowadays almost every home, office or school has a computer or even a few of these devices. Anyway, these modern technologies without which lots of people cannot imagine their lives have some advantages as well as disadvantages.
To begin with, I would like to comment on the advantages. So firstly, computer gives you the opportunity to access a lot of information about everything not to mention the fact that you can store large amounts of information on the computer in a database. One computer disk can hold the same amount of information as several books. And don’t forget about the fact that computers can do some jobs very quickly. For example, writing some report with charts and diagrams on a computer will take you less time than writing it manually. Computers not only allow doing those jobs faster, but also allow doing them from a distance for example, from home and sending somewhere you need by e-mail. Finally, computer is useful for communication. To my mind there is plenty of communication software which helps you to socialise with your friends, mates as well as with foreigners from all over the world not even leaving your room.
On the other hand as any other appliance it has its own minuses. Let’s face the problem that computer becomes old – fashioned very fast after buying it and needs to be replaced. The point is that replacing a computer is quite expensive. The newer the computer is the more you have to pay for it. Not to mention, the costs you have to pay for fixing the computer if it breaks. In any case, not many people can fix computers so they demand quite a lot of money for repairing them. And computer may have to be fixed if it catches a virus for example. Viruses are all over the Internet; in fact your computer can easily get infected by simply entering some insecure web site. Viruses may cause lots of harm to your computer. They can even destroy all information stored on the computer. That’s why it is very dangerous and you have to get the computer fixed in no time and as I’ve already mentioned before that costs a lot. To return to the topic, I feel I need to mention one of the worst cons of the computer - spending too much time in front of the computer may influence your health: your eye sight becomes worse and you may gain weight by only sitting on the chair and staring into the monitor.
So, to sum up, I have revealed only a small part of pros and cons of this modern multi functional machine, and to my mind it is enough to understand that computer is useful with no doubts, but you only have to use it when you really need it and you should use it cautiously not causing any computer crashes. If you will follow these advices you will reach the best benefit for yourself.