Suvey Said 52% Kids Are Internet Addict
A survey over 1500 kids in ten big cities in India had shown that 52% kids from eight to eleven was categorized in excessive number. The survey was taken last month by Assocham Company as quoted from Hindustan Times.
More than a half of the respondents confessed that the use more that five hours in a day surving on the cyber world, but in general the online activities are still in positive mainstay like doing their home works, school projects, email, real-time chatting and social network.
The survey also revealed that boys were more addicted than girls, the trend appears prominently in urban area where both parents are commonly posses their own career.
But the side effect of the excessive online activities may cause some disturbance like insomnia, lack of social awareness, and even susceptible for obesity. Feeling inferior and lack of parents control in fact are two reasons behind the addiction.
Computer Had Made Teenagers Hard To Read and Count
A study in United States of America (USA) stated that the computer using among teenagers will weaken the math and reading capability. As quoted from Sunday Telegraph yesterday, the National Bureau of Economic Research found that computer will result the contra-productive among students achievement.
The research involved 500.000 students. The report mentioned that introducing computer(s) to ten years old will not do any good to the students math and reading. Jacob Vigdor, one of the researcher said that computer acces started five or eight years tend to show the score decreasing in math and reading.
Vigdor claimed the computer had made children becoming hard to focus, lack of socializing ability and caused children to play games a lot.
Anyhow the research summarized that the parents control over children is needed to minimize the negative effects of the using. The parents control will benefit a lot for children, Vidgor added.
Gateway One : Acer All-In-One PC with Integrated LCD Screen
Acer will soon unveil the all-in-one Gateway One PC ZX4800-41 later this month. Acer Gateway One PC ZX4800-41 PC is a touchscreen LCD in 1600×900 resolution, and using multi-touch system.
The system is featuring T3000 1.8GHz Celeron, Intel GL40 chipset, 4GB memory, 750GB hard drive and Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.
Other devices such as 0.3mp webcam, Wireless b / g / n, multi-card reader, 6 USB 2.0 and DVD super slim also completes this PC.
