Corrections please, I'm going to do the CAE exam in few days!! Advantages of digital and computer technology in everyday life Digital and computer technology have enormously changed people’s lives. People use new technology everyday and probably lot of them can’t live without it. Nowadays, almost everyone has a mobile phone, a computer or a tablet. But how the use of these devices has influenced people in their everyday lives? Has it influenced in a good or in a bad way?. Well, this last question is difficult to answer and I shouldn’t generalise, so in my opinion computer technology has influenced people in both ways. Firstly, new technology has changed the way we communicate with other people. Few decades ago the only way possible to communicate with others was by telephone or letter. Send a letter was a slower way to communicate than the telephone, but also more personal. Telephones were connected inside the houses and the majority of families couldn’t afford one, so they had to go to someone’s house to make a call. Indeed, making a call was faster than sending a letter, but you didn’t have real privacy. However, now everyone owns a mobile phone, so you don’t need to share it with anyone and be worried about whether someone is listen to your conversation. Also, you can carry it everywhere and send messages or make calls whenever you want. Secondly, another advantage of computer technology is being able to shop online and to have a huge variety of services. That means you can usually get things cheaper, faster and easier than in a normal shop because using a website companies reduce costs and it is reflected on the price. We can also avoid long queues when shopping in a store unlike online shopping. To summarise, in my opinion digital and computer technology have made easy to buy things and have helped us to communicate with family and friends, or communicate through devices at least, because one thing we can notice nowadays is that almost everyone uses their phones instead of having a normal conversation. As I said before, it is difficult to say whether the influence is good or bad and, anyway, I'm not going to criticise people’s behavior, everyone should decide the kind of lifestyle they want to have.