A week ago I had to apply for a job by writing a handwritten covering letter. No word of a lie, after the first paragraph I thought my hand was gonna drop off. Why? Because I'm so used to doing everything on computers.

Dont get me wrong. Computers have many wonderful uses but bottom line is I think it is having a detremental effect on handwriting. Fair enough, we still do exams with handwriting but I feel constant computer use has slowed the average person down, as I know for a fact I cannot write as fast now as I could when I was 16. Also, o a side note, getting used to the spellchecker function has also had a detrimnetal effect on my spelling. Dont get me wrong, I havent turned dummy overnight but it is worrying

So computers are a prroblem!!!



Does anyone agree/disagree. Any replies wil be appreciated

Not a problem

Computers were SUPPOSSED to do that to us. The paperless office is taking longer than expected to come about. Handwriting will become obsolete soon and good riddance.

Writting will remain! but we will save trees



mine was never tidy anyway LOL

To an extent computers are bad - with the spelling and grammarchecks and all that it makes us useour brain less and less. Even mathematics you can get a computer to do your arithmetic. We actually do not need to understand things these days because a computer program can break it down for you.

So my question to everyone is do yousee that as good??? Because I can't.

@cash

Ihear that after I finished uni and I never had to write for a while - when I got back to it, my writing was all over the place I had to get back to basics.

I know when I start uni in october i would have to learn shorthand! but i will not miss handwriting as mine is terrible oh dear!

but the advantages of handwriting is that it improves your spelling.My spelling is terrible and i rely on spelling tools in the computer too much.

Well being an engineer my maths is perfect (cough cough) but seriously if you're not going to use it then what do you need it for? Its important for a child or someone studying to know these things but afterwards................ who cares?

You say it makes our brains lazy? what about the idea that it frees your mind to think of more comlex matters than spelling and counting.

Yeah but isn't knowing how to spell and count a necessity even in this modern era. A computer can't tell u if u getting the wrong change at the supermarket or like someone I know who paid £1 for two packs of biscuits worth 49p each and thought he was getting a deal.lol And knowing the difference between the rapperFabolous and the word Fabulous. Or Twista and twister the list goes on and on.

Counting and spelling should be like knowing the back of your hand and so you can still think of more complex issues because its like second nature. Plus more complex issues stem from something basic and for me counting and spelling is basic therefore the base for something more complex.

Plus more complex issues stem from something basic and for me counting and spelling is basic therefore the base for something more complex.




Ok you got me there LOL I must agree with that!!clp)

I agree that computers dumb you down.For instance my dad can do long divison, multiplication all basic things by hand or using his brain, he does not use a calculator ( which is another type of computer), me on the other hand NO COMMENT , but if i am going to be a pharmacist then i cannot take risks and have to use a calculator r to dispense the right concentration of the drug or else their will be hell to pay.

Computers have no effect on people's spelling and grammar and heres a poem that proves it so;

A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers...


Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.



See it's conclusive, I'm sure we all agree

Yeah but u spelt the words right so why would it correct something that is not wrong. A computer takes each word on its own merit - at the end of day it is artificial intelligence but how long before we get a computer that can correct that poem. So :PLOL

But you know computer still corrects spelling I defy anyone who tells me different and help with grammar thats why when some people type there is all those green and red lines. lol

@cashmoney I hear what you are saying about the spellchecker, I reckon personally it has caused lazyness, regarding spelling. Then again we live in an age of technology which I am grateful for but can you imagine communication today without mobile phones and emails. Is the payphone still in regular use?

@Cash. right on bro. Writing is a skill that improves with usage .So it follows when you don't use it it receeds fast. Goldn rule in sports coaching which applies it takes you generally three times faster to lose a level of skill than it takes to gain it. Try being out of cricket or a technical sport for a little while seee how quick your skills go down. Same thing..

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