How does the computer affect the society?

Ma. Kathleen S. Tumale
Grade 6 - Our Lady of Annunciation

How does the computer affect the society?

The computer affects the society by it's new applications such as the internet and some games in the computer. The computer is indeed very useful to the people nowadays especially us children and teenagers. We use the computer for communication, entertainment, for educational purposes and others. Sometimes, we really get used to use the computer because it has become a habit for us to use it and like me, it became an integral part of my life for without it, I feel uncomfortable and incomplete.

For good or bad purposes, we use the computer. It can somehow affect our studies like for example, instead of studying our lessons for our exams or quizzes or doing our assignments at home, we forget about it because we concentrated on playing games on the computer. In fact, many Filipinos were not able to graduate because of the computer because they did not use the computer for the times they really need but became addicted on it especially the boys. Some of them play violent games on internet cafes after school. I, myself have experienced seeing them doing that. I'm a little disappointed but somehow, I really hope that they study well as a payment of their parents letting them to play games on the computer if their parents know about it.
Besides this negative effects, we also have some positive effects of it. The computer really helps in almost everything we do in everyday of our lives like when we have projects, assignments, researches, other activities and so on. We can study well on the computer without much effort of researching in so many books just to research a certain article or topic we need. Sure, researching in the library is good but in the computer, it is more convenient and faster. Furthermore, we can also use the computer if we want to buy something, if we want to read bed time stories and others so we can really prove that computer affected the society that much. Even so, we should not forget that computer is only our guide and helper for a better lifestyle. We should not abuse the latest inventions today to cheat or to be unfair with others. Handwork is better that to cheat so we must work harder to achieve our goals in life and to succeed.

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