Let’s take a trip back to the mid-1900s. It’s been a few years after World War II, color televisions are just starting to be produced, the first credit cards are being used, but more importantly, home computers are non-existent.
Computers have become such a huge part of people’s lives today because they are so useful and have the ability to make tasks more time efficient.
Yet, what if America was hit by a natural disaster as powerful as the one that hit Japan and it blacks out the entire country?
People have become so attached to their computers and seeing how students grew up with them, if they were to all of a sudden vanish or not function anymore, people would feel like they’ve been pushed back to the Stone Age.
Even though they are very useful devices that are easily accessible either at the comfort of your own home or at any local library, one argument against computers is when someone has gone passed the stage of making the internet part of their daily life and has turned it into an obsession.
Being obsessed with computers will then lead to even more problems. Aaron Chiek said the ultraviolet rays that project from the screen are harmful and can lead to bad eye sight.
Sometimes you can become addicted to a game where you keep telling yourself “just a little bit further and then I’ll go do my homework,” yet another hour or two flies by without you even knowing and it’ll be three in the morning.
Another pressing issue about computers is that having a social network profile opens people to a different world. Here you have close friends and family that you get to stay in touch with, but what you may not know is that it opens you to a world of cyber-stalkers and cyber-bullying.
And even though cyber-bullying doesn’t sound too bad because there’s no physical abuse involved, a girl named Megan Meier from Missouri ended up committing suicide in 2006 because of it. So, yeah, it’s a big deal.
Even though computers can help save a lot time completing tasks, students shouldn’t allow them to take up more than a couple of hours of their day.