Why do you have a computer?

[Blocker]

Computers are nearly in every home, so what do you mainly use yours for?
We should include tablets and other connected devices.

[jennie285]

Mainly work but for the past few years social media

[seavan]

Pity you can only vote on the one as I use mine for work and surfing.

[micks_sandman]

So I can access mySandman.com.au

[Kiwivan]

Porn












Really I use it to gather info,Also to find out what is happening in the world.Helps with my projects.

Cheers Kiwivan
ps sometimes there is a nice picture of a sheep

[wbute]

Just an iPhone. No use for a computer. I use it to keep in touch with my family who I spend too much time away from. I also use it to get on forums and waste my time away on.

[Cocko750]

Don't have one everything Ido on the net is with an iPhone , but the kids and wife have laptops for work and school ( don't know how much ) but we got rid of the main computer when we renoed the house, never got used wife has a iPad too but all I can use is this stupid phone.

[Big Rob]

I remember the day I was 1st introduced to a computer.

Of course, being 54 years old, I never grew up with one and my wife and I don't have kids, so my contact with one was rare and my use of one was zero. I worked as an engine reconditioner at Watson Racing Cams for 7 years and that period of time coincided with the computer boom for home and small business use, so I didn't need to use one for work either.

I bumbled through life without needing one for a few more years until one day my wife came home from work with a car load of computer bits. The place where she worked had upgraded and we became the proud owners of a '386' desktop computer. I was scared sh#tless of it and it sat in our spare room for years with a plastic computer cover on it.

Until....

I had relaunched my sporting career and was getting some assistance from the A.I.S who were heavily into the use of heart rate monitors, which I found extremely useful. The coach started asking for all my heart rate details and just expected that I knew how to download the HRM and print the graphs. I had no idea what he was talking about, let alone that the HRM could be connected to a computer. He was insistent that I must send him all my training data and I didn't even know where the 'On' button was on the computer (or that my '386' was already a dinosaur!)

Obviously I've made a bit of progress, but there's still a lot about these things that scare me.....

[Wally]

Haven't got much time for computers but realize they're a nesessary evil.
Try using one when the powers down.