Invasion of the Body Snatchers

The computer has invaded homes, offices, minds and bodies of everyone, everywhere.

If you have a computer in your home, how do you view it? A social tool? A technical machine? A sophisticated toy?

With electronic automation, we can send mail, shop, communicate, pay bills, play games, listen to music, do literally anything without ever leaving our homes.

With the click of a mouse and the use of our keyboard, we can vist another country, island or learn a new language. We can explore, get educated and learn a lot about ourselves and others.

Within the past few years, with the use of our computers, we can turn our living room into a virtual workplace.

Computers Are For Everyone

I recently spoke to a woman who is in her early 60's and she told me that her family bought her a computer and she had no clue how to use it. As soon I started explaining to her how she could learn how to use it, she quickly interrupted me and with a smile she told me that her 10-year old grandson knows how to use HER computer.

Then I quickly replied to her that it doesn't have to be that way. It's her computer and she should learn how to use it herself. She told me that she's was planning to sign up for classes at a nearby computer store.

It's amazing to me why people are charged so much money for something that can taught and learned in less than 60 minutes - I'll even go lower and say 30 minutes because a lot can be learned in this amount of time too.

There are many other people who feel the same way - that they can never learn how to use a computer while others actually admit that they are 'afraid of a computer'. Is that how you feel?

What Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?

Let's ask ourselves, who made computers? Yes, humans did. So, with this fact in mind and something you shouldn't forget: computers are NOT smarter than you. They can't replace you and they can't control you. If you really think about, it should be the other way around.

Of course, computers are used in industries where their functions are relied upon more than the actions of human beings, but they ultimately cannot replace a human being.

So........shouldn't you know how to operate, troubleshoot, fix, repair your computer if a problem came up? Yes? No? Honestly, all it takes is knowledge, effort and time to learn HOW - but it can be done.

Get it out of your mind if you think that 'learning computers is hard' - doing this is actually insulting YOUR intelligence and putting down YOUR capabilities. Learning how to use a computer isn't a mystery and there is no secret to it.

Regardless of your age, gender, or whoever you are, you CAN learn how to use a computer.....

Her-Guide-To-Computers will help you do it.

Updated 07/04/2008