Society's Dependence on Computers

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Computers are everywhere, and they are used for everything, and in every type of business have we become too dependent on computers?

The younger generation particularly has seized on the strange communication through the Internet. Using chat groups on different subjects they are taking in school, they conduct live conversations by keyboard through the internet.

Since computers have been invented, so many people everywhere find themselves dependent on computers. Computers are appearing almost about every aspect of our lives, and in most cases, they are making things very easy r for us. Computers permit us to work from home, mingle with our friends and family who live a great distant from us, and they are a great stress relief when we return home from school or work and just want to relieve some stress and have fun. But as we rely on computers more and more to get through the day, the question is still to be asked: are we too dependent on computers?

In spite of the many benefits of computers, there are also quite a few arguments about them, one of which is the bad effect some believe they are having on children's education and learning. Before computers became really popular where almost every household had one students did research papers manually and used a type writer to type papers or hand write their papers, illiteracy is a big issue, and many people say that computers are the reason for that. Younger students these days are asked to type papers which may not be a problem for older students but for younger students they need to do assignments that are hand written to develop their writing skills. If a younger student is typing all their assignments it can have a great affect on their grammar because they are using the comp...

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...iety as a whole is very dependent on computers weather it’s playing games, chatting online, shopping, emailing family and friends or emailing a coworker the next aisle over. Many business are so dependent on computers that they are now storing all their information on their computers hard drive and not giving thought if the computer crash. Many department stores are now computer based and do not have any other way to check out a customer if their system go down I remember waiting in line and the store’s computer went many customers left stating they didn’t not want to wait for the system to come back up because of the dependency of computers the store lost many potential customers. Computers are not bad to have and use but to be dependent may not be so good and if a business is dependent on a computer it may want to have a backup system just in case of an emergency.

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