Outsmarting Eye Strain

Nowadays there's nothing strange with seeing people staring closely at screens and monitors. Much of humans' life now is revolving around electronic devices. Hand phones, pagers, laptops, netbooks, panel controls, all of them have monitors or screens for people to look at.

There're more and more people suffering from back pain, tense neck, and most of the cases..eye strain. I mean it, I used to think sitting and typing in front of computer wouldn't be quite agonizing. But now I find it truly torturing.
And what I hate is when it happens, I just can't really take my eyes off of the monitor easily as leaving the computer means leaving so much work for tomorrow and I want it done ASAP. I have to do routines like checking emails, writing on my blog, twittering, facebooking, and the list goes on. Then my eyes gradually get strained as the time goes by. And I feel like I had to massage my eyeballs to relieve the pain.

I know it's just the beginning of the next eye-related issues, and I have no intention to have one, of course. But at the same time it's pretty hard to stop when I am in the middle of activity.

Some friends say we'd better stay away from computer monitor every 2 hours, but recently I just got another information. As what Josh Hanagarne stated, it would be better for us, computer users, to stare at an object 20 feet away every 20 minutes and blink 20 times.

Ok, I guess my 20 minutes is running out...Bye!