In the recent time, almost every household all over the world at least have one of the most common electronic machine product, called television. Televisions are watched by almost 90 percent of the population each week and overall have 27 per cent share of total viewing. Among the findings cited in the I.B.M survey in the United States, 9 percent said they spent time watching TV, while 66 percent reported viewing between one to four hours of TV per day. This percentage increased as well as the development of the function it has, not to mention video recording, plus watching DVD, listen to the music or playing video game. Summary, television has been treated as one of formal need which has the function of both education and entertain. In my opinion, I believe that television is responsible for the lack of communication with the family or socialize with other people.
Firstly, television usually takes much of our daily time. Normally, it would take at least one or two hours for short to watch television. With nowadays feature and many worldwide channels for cabels, a lot of interesting tv programmes is shown in order. This would attract us to watch tv for long period of time, more than it needs. Because of that, main activities that we should finish first are put aside, leave behind and cause such catasthrope later. Soon we realize that we don't have much time to do our actual job, and have done it in hurry. After that work, it is expected that our stamina had already drained and we just too tired to do anything else, not to mentioned talking with our family. If this happened frequently, lack communication within the member of the family would cause a gap distant in mind for each other. This distant is dangerous, it could cause miscommunication and small or even serious fight. This happened because we couldn't manage time wisely to barely listen to our own family problems and though.
Yet, some people believe that television could be used as a gathering event with the family member. It has double advantage factor, one is for educate, to know interesting information or important news that happened. The other is just to have some fun, release tension after work and have light little chat with our family.
However, while watching television, we hardly would have a conversation with other people. This is because we concentrate in watching the programme the television shown, so we don't pay too much attention of what the other people might say. If there's a slight chance of the conversation happened, it would just revolve around about comment of the television programme that had been watched.
The other factor, television could cause negative effect that makes greater distance to parents-children relationship. As for case for visiting people, like relatives, friends or have a conversation with the family, most of children found that it is kind of boring activities compared to watching TV. It is true that television could give many entertaiment for children. Not only basic television programme, but it also could be used to watching DVD or VCD movie, playing many game console, even connect to the internet. Many cases, showed that children prefer to watch television rather than have a talk with their parents. The worst, children feel easier to be alone enjoying themselves in front of the television, and become lazy to interact with other people and socialize with them. This could destroy sense of community with both friends and parents.
The conclusion is, although television is in fact one of the useful and entertaining eletronic item, it could give us trouble if we don't know how to manage our time wisely, the worst outcome is it could destroy family life and any sense of community. However, it trully depends on our personality and judges, whether we choose to spend time wisely or just do as we pleased.
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