Computers were designed to make our lives faster.  Modern day computers have so many facilities that many of us would not have been dreamt of fifteen to twenty years back. Modern day software packages give us the liberty of downloading data  into any formats of our choice thereby giving the option of sending huge files through email in a few seconds which years back had to be printed packed and couriered which was a colossal waste of time and energy because we never had a choice at that point of time in our lives.

There is always a flip side in every aspect of our lives and computers and in this regard computers are no exception. The flip side to computers comes in the form of its own advantages often misused by people especially in applications like winword and in emails.  Some flip sides are:-

Editing Facility:- Prior to advent of applications like Microsoft word letters used to be hand written by us or typed on a typewriter.  We were accustomed to finish letters handwritten or typed within fifteen minutes or a maximum of half an hour.  The handwritten letters had a draw back in the sense there were too many scratches and over writing.  Software applications in computers give us the facility to edit and therefore we have become greedy and tend to use this facility much more than what we need.  Any number of editions to the data we are not satisfied.  We not only waste our time in repeatedly editing the data, but also waste others time in getting the edited versions verified time and again.

Spell Check and Grammar:- Users are more concerned than ever before on getting the spellings right which was never a priority earlier.  Also the focus is too much on grammar than on completion of data or sending it before the stipulated time frame.

Beautification of Data:- Many people are more concerned with beautification of data as they waste lot of time in changing fonts.  the choice of fonts offered by most software makes users greedy craving for more thereby resulting in deviation of primary motive of typing out data to beautification of data.

Saving Facility:- One of the best facilities offered by software's is saving for we have the option to save what is already typed so that we can type the balance at a time convenient to us.  Because of this facility to do things in convenience in installments we never try to finish of typing out the entire data at one go.  The facility to save makes us lazy and this is one of the reasons why work gets pending in most organizations as clerks tend to take too many breaks in the midst of typing data like chatting over phone, taking lunch before completion of data and so on.

This article is not to blame facilities offered by computers but to point out how excessive choice corrupts us  and generates a desire in us to crave for more leading to lack of satisfaction.  When we have too many choices we get spoilt for options and  in the end we end up doing nothing.

• Written by N R SATISH.
• In category Software.
• 14 years ago.

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