Are we too dependent on computers?

 Computers have become a part of our lives. We use them every day, whether it's to have a chat with a friend or to research something. Almost anything is possible on computers: banking, shopping, research, entertainment and even living as a different person. This online life that computers are making available to us, is destroying our real lives. Some people will agree that without computers, their lives will be boring and seem pointless. Even though it's true that computers have made our lives much easier, using them and depending on them too much ultimately makes everything about us unreal, and the computer world real.

 In Japan, there is a word for people who are addicted to computers and will do anything to achieve their goals in the online world, "Otaku". Last year, Japan announced that 3% of the Japanese Teenagers are Otakus. This isn't just Japan's problem. It's the world's. Not only people are addicted to computers, but they are doing things online that they wouldn't normally do. For example, when people chat with friends online, they normally don't see each other's faces, it's just words or sentences that they type. As a result, people tend to be more rude and create cyber bullying situations. 

 Computers are also destroying our language. On computers, people use initialisms such as lol (laugh out loud) that do not exist in spoken English. It wouldn't be a problem if people only use initialisms on computers but they don't. For most of the time, it's students that use initialisms instead of proper English (that's why it's such a big problem). We have a right to protect and respect our language, if people cannot be bothered to type correctly, why do they even type in the first place?

 It is definitely a fact that computers have made things easier and quicker for us. However, there are things like the way of respecting other people, that computers are about to get rid of. Instead of chatting to friends and 'loling' every minute, people should focus more on protecting their language and things like cyber bullying. By the way, a typical Otaku would be a fat man, wearing thick glasses, carrying a barbie doll with them wherever he goes.