Computers provide advantages like speed, reliability, communication between devices, and large storage capacity. However, disadvantages include potential health risks from improper usage, privacy violations if records are unprotected, computer crimes like hacking, and reduced employment as computers automate tasks.

1. Advantages of Disadvantages
Using the Computer

2. Advantages of Using the Computer
1. Speed: When data, instructions, and information flow along electronic
circuits in a computer, they travel at incredibly fast speeds.
2. Reliability: The electronic components in modern computers are dependable
and reliable because they rarely break or fail.

3. 3. Communications: Most computers today can communicate with other
computers, often wirelessly. Computers with this capability can share any of the
four information processing cycle operations input, process, output, and storage
with another computer or a user.
4. Storage: A computer can transfer data quickly from storage to memory, process
it, and then store it again for future use.

4. Disadvantages of using the computer
1. Health Risks: Prolonged or improper computer use can lead to injuries or
disorders of the hands, wrists, elbows, eyes, neck, and back.

5. 2. Violation of Privacy: Nearly every life event is stored in a computer somewhere
in medical records, credit reports, tax records, etc. In many instances, where
personal and confidential records were not protected properly, individuals have
found their privacy violated and identities stolen.
3. Computer Crimes: People use the computer for negative activities. They hack
the credit card numbers of the people and misuse them or they can steal important
data from big organizations.

6. 4. Unemployment: Different tasks are performed automatically
by using computers. It reduces the need of people and increases
unemployment in society.