Advantages and disadvantages of computers

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