Television, Good or Bad for Life

Television is the most mass media in the world. Statistics prove that almost every household have at least one TV. According to A.C. Nielsen Co. Media Research, about 60 percent people in the world watch TV more than 4 hours a day. This fact indicates that TV has become an important part of human’s life, not only for getting information but also for entertainment. To a certain extent, I believe that television destroys people’s sense of community. Television makes people lazy and ignoring their neighborhood. Instead of visiting neighbor, people just watch TV.

There are some reasons why people are becoming lazy and don’t care about their surroundings. Before television becoming the main source of information, people got news and other information from their neighbors or their friends. When TV could give more information that people need, people are becoming less frequent in visiting each other. Beside that, some television’s programs that attract people very much make them lazy to do other activities while those programs are showing. This makes them lazy and ignoring whatever is going on.

Yet, some people believe that the existence of television in their home can keep communication among the members of the family well. All of the members of the family gather in the living room and watch TV together. In this situation, parents can talk to their children about many things. The parents also can give advices to their children about the TV’s programs that they are watching.

However, watching television too much is not good at all. Beside it can destroy people’s sense of community, it also gives bad effect in people’s healthy. By sitting too much without doing other exercise, people are at high risk of having cardiovascular disease and obesity. Watching TV too long also can damages people’s eyes and makes them have near sighted.

In conclusion, television can destroy people’s sense of community and giving bad effect in people’s healthy if it is watched too much. By watching TV properly, like only watching news and family programs that can be watched together in a family, people can take the function of the television without getting its negative effects.