1. It can have negative effects on your social life and interactions with other people if you do not maintain the balance between time online and offline.
2. It may have a negative effect on your eyesight due to radiation.
3. It may cause pimples and wrinkles.
4. It may distract you from your studies.
5. Too much time in front of monitor may adversely affect your eyesight.
6. Sitting in front of a computer for too long without exercise can cause a weight gain.
Advantages:
1. It helps you automate various tasks that you cannot do manually.
2. It helps you organize your data and information.
3. It has much more computing and calculating power then an ordinary human.
4. It may help your work to be a lot easier.
5. It can help you communicate with friends, coworkers and other contacts.
6. It has many search engines to help you find information quickly.
It is tempting to think that because you have used a computer for a long time, you are “computer literate” or “computer savvy,” but this is not the case. Here are 10 skills you absolutely must know to be considered computer literate. If you already know these, you should be helping others learn them as well!
1: Search engines
Using a search engine is more than typing in the address, putting a couple of keywords into the big text box, clicking Search, and choosing the first result. While that may work, it won’t give you the best results much of the time. Learning the advanced search, Boolean operators, and how to discern good results from bad results goes a long way toward enabling you to use a computer as apowerful research tool.
2: Word processing
Word processing is one of the oldest uses for a computer. And it continues to be extremely important, even though in many ways its functions have been put into other applications. (For example, people may write more emails than documents, but the task is nearly identical.) It is tough to claim to be computer literate if the