Television, Is It Really a Community Life’s Enemy?

Some people said that television is the community life’s enemy because sometimes we prefer to watch the tv than visiting or chatting with our own family or friend. But, in my opinion television has its own function for the community life. For example, television is one of the information’s source, and also the ‘agent of change’ for the public. And, don’t you realize that sometimes your best quality time with your family or friend is when you altogether watching the tv?

Everyday in our daily life, different things, big or simple, happen in the world, that’s why you need a newspaper, radio, internet, or television to get the latest news. it is easier to get the information from tv than from the other source, cause you could watch it and doing something else too. For example, you wake up in the morning, and all you need to do is just turn on the tv, and tadaa! By a blink you know what happen in the other side of the world, and in the same time you could also having your breakfast, or discuss the news with your family. See? you could even doing both of watching the television and chatting.

Television also has some kind of ‘power’ for changing the public’s level of life. As a source of information, tv could change public’s point of view by increasing the people’s awareness of their community. For example, people could be more paying attention of global warming’s problem because they watch the discovery channel that talk about it. Another example, people could know about poor people’s life and decide to do something to help another people.

However, realize it or not, our best quality time often we spend it by watching tv together. When I was a little child, after having the dinner, every night the entire family would sit in the livingroom to watch the tv. We could watch anything, from reality show or game or even tv series called “Tersanjung”. While we watch any program, we would gossiping the actress, laughing the scene, or just debating the quiz. And for me, that is one of the best quality time I had with my family.

Life is full of choices, you could always pick either to watching television or chatting with your familly or friend. It is depend on your own personality, if you love to being in community, how interesting the tv’s program, you would pick to visiting your relative. But if you are anti social, how boring the tv’s program you would prefer to watch it. For me, if I have to choose I would prefer to having a good conversation with anyone than watching my favorite tv series, “Aly McBeaL".(Adiajeng Warastuti. 16207003)