So I was thinking about eyes and wondering if their focus changes over your life based on what you use them for. I'm not an optician so I'm just postulating that my dad was a soldier and now is a lorry driver so much of the focus in his life has been on distant items and he's far sighted. I've worked in offices and been obsessed with computers since I was 16 and I'm short sighted Anyway, that got me thinking as to just how much time I spend on a computer. I reckon that on at least 70% of the days between being 16 and now I've spent at least 10 hours a day on a PC, on the majority of the remaining days I still would have used a PC and a hole lot of that 70% would have been more than 10 hours. In fact I reckon in nine years, there are no more than 50 days where I have not been in contact with a PC So... ignoring leap years, that's 6.3 years sat at a computer. 6.3 years. I need to get out more. EDIT: It's actually 2.625 year. Maths fail!
the only time I haven't been in front of a computer is when i had my head in a maths book at school or in bed/eating. Been using a computer since I was 6, fascinated at how it worked. Now, I'm a developer I spend all day writing code. Then all night playing BC2. And the last time I was at the opticians I was slightly far sighted. Go figure.
I dread to think. I've had a PC in my room for approximately the last 12 years. I've been in the "Enthusiast" bracket of user for at least eight of those years, probably longer. It's not affected my eyesight in the slightest. Yet.
Not anywhere near as much as I used to. Pretty much only when I'm at the office working now, so about 40 ish hrs a week. At lunch times I make a point to try and get away from staring at the screens. Evenings I try and do things that don't involve computers and get out and about.
been an addict since the age of 8, the first cost £1000 for 15kg, all white and smelled funny. But man was it worth it. ....wait what we on about...
LOL . I never touched a PC until 1990, they weren't really around much in NZ before then anyway, at school the "computer club" was into maths & physics, not PC's (not that I was a member). In 1990 I started my first office job (really wierd after 6 years of mainly outside work) and involved using the old "green screens" - mainframe dumb terminals. Within a year I couldn't read the adverts on the other side of the tube platform without squinting and needed glasses - slightly short sighted. Moved onto "real" PC's then (well, 286's) but funnily enough my eyes have not weakened any more, my prescription is only a smidge stronger than it was in 1991. I have worked with PC's since. As mentioned by Hiren, you gotta get away from the screen regularly.
Too much, maybe about 6 hours a day for the last 5 years. Although I first got short sighted about 2 years after having my own laptop I'm not sure if the screen is to blame, but my sight has been getting slowly worse ever since.
To make you feel old. I wasn't even born the first time you used a computer. I'm legally an adult now as well.
I remember a few years back, my parents and everyone else kept saying "the radiation from that computer will kill you, go out and get some sun". Funnily enough, the myth that computers emit harmful radiation has been debunked, as far as I am aware, while it is an accepted fact that the sun does emit harmful radiation. My parents were trying to kill me I think As for the idea that computers are bad for your vision, that seems to be another half-truth that was fed to me when I was young. It seemed like a fact to me when I was younger, that computers would damage the eyes. But now, when I think about it, why would staring at a computer screen be any worse than reading a book? I believe that it is possible to strain the eyes, by excessively staring at an object which is placed at a fixed distance (ie. a monitor), and by poor illumination and such. But I can't understand why that would cause permanent damage such as short sightedness. My parents hate computers, and hate me using them. But I personally think that a lot of the negativity towards these wonderful machines is based on myths and lack of understanding. I mean, a computer is essentially a glorified calculator with a nice shiny color display. My parents have no problem reading books, writing letters and making phonecalls. Well I can write emails, I can use instant messaging, I can use audio or audio/video chat to talk to people almost anywhere in the world, anytime for free. Imagine all those people with their snail mail, having postmen running all over the place to exchange a few words, and waiting days for a response. All of us computer users can do it instantaneously. And books, I have nothing against them, but why bother when the internet is quicker, more economically friendly and does not require a trip to the library. I mean, computers have so much potential to enable us to do more than was ever possible, faster. Why should we not spend hours and hours and hours every day using them? Why not? Computer literacy will also be helpful in future, when you are looking for a job, so that's a plus too. Sorry if that sounded like a bit of a rant. Anyways. The important thing is, I am going to continue spending hours on the computer, and I don't think it will be detrimental to my health if I maintain a good diet, take breaks regularly for my eyes, watch my posture and do exercise every day.
I sit at a computer all day at work, but at home it's not unusual to go a couple days without turning it on.
I'm confident that, when I will finally be an engineer, I will be on the field more and will spend less time on a PC. If that doesn't happen, then I can only hope I will have kids by then that will keep me busy. Sometimes I wish I had a normal life but I am a bit talladega-ish, except I'm also fat. Hence why I don't try to follow mv's tips/orders
