Manual, should you read it or not?

Although we are now in so-called "hi-tech" era, many people still find out it hard to use the technology. Many drawbacks happen, such as, functions in a smartphone that is not fully used. In fact, the manufacturers always give a manual along with the hi-tech items. It is just that this manual is always quite boring. Furthermore, when it is needed, for instance, when you are looking how to solve a problem in your PC, it always turned out that this manual cannot solve your problems. However, this manual is given because it is very essential.

First, you can probably wrongly install your sophisticated item. This happens usually to someone who has been using hi-tech things. These kind of people usually think it is just the same as the older one. In fact, new item is preferably made because it has new functions or features. Most people will read the manual when they have made a mistake. Usually, it will be too late to read the manual.

Secondly, you can miss out many functions or features that are actually very useful. For this phenomenon, it is too common. I can give one very simple example, my simple scientific calculator. I am quite sure that most of my friends who are using the same type of my calculator do not know about this feature. As a matter of fact, I just found it out few hours before. My calculator is CASIO fx-350MS. I just knew that it can help us convert a complex number from rectangular form to polar form, and vice versa. This function is actually very very useful, especially in electrical engineering(because I am studying it!).

Lastly, of course, you will know how to use it. Why do I state this reason? It is because there are still many people asking how to use this certain item or how to install it. Well, for some countries such as Indonesia, where people still feel more comfortable by listening than reading, it is a common problem.

To conclude, although it is very boring sometime, please read the manual for your own sake. Don't you feel you are in disadvantage since you have paid so much for it but you are not using its full features?

written by Prajnananda Kusuma

PS. Wah! My first essay that is written by my own will. Well, actually I am writing it so that all of you do not experience the same thing as I am.
PS. 2? If you want to know how to use the function I stated earlier, please just find me in MSN!