If you can count on one person in this life, it is your mother. Particularly, you can rely on any mom anywhere to find the perils inherent in any situation. Indeed, no self-respecting mom ever missed an opportunity to caution her children about the dangers of everything from comics to swimming pools and public restrooms. What would mom say about PCs?
We have tried to find an answer to this question, and after months of exhaustive polling of computer savvy moms around the country (there are more than you think), we’ve assembled the following list of ten PC perils your mom should have warned you about. Take them seriously. Mom knows what she is talking about.
1. Playing too much War Craft will make you go blind.Go outside, get some fresh air. Do you want to look like a ghost all your life?
2. Never enter strange bulletin board systems. Who knows what kind of riff-raff you will find there? Just last week, I saw a show about the kind of trash that hangs out on these systems.
3. If they're so interested in information, why don’t they go to the library?
4. Don't talk on the phone and input data into the spreadsheet at the same time.It is very rude, and frankly, I don’t like your language when the program doesn’t work the way you think it should.
5. Clean up your hard disk.God forbid you should be in an accident and someone should see how sloppy your directories are.
6. You don’t have to rush out and buy every trendy new product.So what if all your friends are buying it. You wouldn’t jump off a bridge just because everyone else did, would you?
7. Be sure to write your name and phone number on all your disks. That way, if they ever get mixed up with someone else’s, you can tell which one is yours.
8. Never put a disk into your drive if you don’t know where it has been.Your computer might catch a disease or something. Don’t laugh, it is not funny. That’s what happened to the Kelly boy, and his PC hasn’t been the same since.
9. Sit up straight, and for heaven’s sake, not so close to that monitor screen. What do you want to do, go blind and look like a pretzel? Exercise at your desk occasionally rotating your wrist, rolling your shoulders, and stretching. Better yet, get up and walk around.
10. Always eat fruit and vegetables. Okay, so it doesn’t have anything to do with computers, it’s good advice anyway. And who said mothers had to be consistent?