Good Old TV.

Television had been a big part of almost everybody’s life for the past decades; nearly all households own a television for entertainment or informational purposes. There are many opinions about the negative effects of television’s existence in family life, but television could be harmless and improve (both the quality and quantity) the communications among the family members. It all depends on the way the people use the television.

Television does consume time, but it could be positive depends on the situation. When the television is watched together by the family, it adds more quality time for the family. People usually chat with their fellow audience when watching television. In this particular situation television acts as a family unifying media.

Television enriches the communication among family members by supplying information from the outside world. Educational and informational channels are giving the audience information faster than any newspaper or magazine can do, and the information is more diverse. This information given by the television provides excellent topics for conversation with family members.

For the reasons mentioned above, television should not be judged as a family destroyer. Because, despite being addictive, television is highly resourceful and advantageous in family life. It makes the family member gather up to watch it and it provides up to date informations.

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Television Effects

Television nowadays has become a basic needs in people’s live. In this information technology (IT) era, television is a very supportive and helpful device in order to accomodate people with information. Information is needed to support people with direction to keep moving. In every sector such as economy, social, politic, etc, the situation is dinamically changed everyday and everyhour. Television also can entertain people. Sometimes it can be a good hideaway from the exhausting activity, like a coffee shop you’d like to visit in your spare-time. Television changes many things, almost everything, including the lifestyle.

Back then, in our country, Indonesia, people knows almost everybody who lives in their neighborhood. They’re supporting each other, and helping each other. Peoples relationship is closed one to another. Indonesian even have their own words for that, such as “tenggang rasa” and “gotong royong”. In english, we can describe it as fraternity. It’s a very beautiful way of living. Awfully, people is sort of losing this kind of habit now, and television is believed as one of the most responsible in this case.

Television channels is responsible to make social relationships less interesting compared to watching them. There is less of talking among family members. Although people can watch television together, it is usually just happen a little chat between them. Usually, there is not much interaction happen. Many of the programs is produced by the country that have a very different culture with the viewers, and people from every level of age can watch. Sometimes it brings bad effect. It means, television provide people with not only information they need, but also they don’t. It flows away the time unconsciously, so people don’t have enough time to socialize. And it leads peoples relationship to become widened one and another.

Beside of social, television also affect people in personal. The information technology is developing so fast, but human physical ability and endurance is not. Before the era of information technology, children have needs to go out and play games outside the house with friends. The playing activity gives good effect to the children. It involves more physical movement, which is healthy. But now, children rarely move out of their homes. So they are not only losing crucial interaction with the friends of their age, but also the physical exercise that they gain from the games. The result, you often find many child obese and having health problems. In many other case, it also happen to adults. People’s lifestyle is getting more and more unhealthy.

Although there are some things that have to be regretted, it is basically impossible to get rid of television from peoples live. Peoples have huge needs of information. What people can do is minimize the negative effect with their proper self-control. More exercise and outdoor activity have to be done in the spare-time. And also, most important, it must be reassured that social aspect of human lives is precious, and not to be forgotten.

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The Bad Side of Television

Almost all of the people in the world watch television everyday. Television is an electronic media that can gives information and entertainment. In my opinion, television is dangerous because it destroys family life and any sense of community.

People said that they can interact with their family by watching television together. That is true, but there are so many more things that we can do to get closer with our family. Such as camping, go on a trip, or even cooking together. These actions are more beneficial than just sit in front of televisions.

Many people spend most of their times watching televisions because it serve many interesting programs and shows. It makes people not interact with their family in their homes. Fathers sit and watch TV shows instead play with their children. Some people don’t want to visit their family in holidays because they don’t want to miss programs in television during holidays.

Television makes people can’t choose their priority. Instead of doing something useful, people choose to watch television. For example, children watch cartoons in television instead of study for their exam in the next day. Housewives don’t do the housework because they watch some drama in television. This is bad, because people abandoned their job to do something useless.

So, television has many bad sides that can destroy family life and any sense of community. People become addictive to watch it, so they don’t interact with their family or other people in the community. This makes relation between families members just get wider.

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Television: its function and effect

It’s not a strange view anymore if every single house has its own television inside. Now, most of people need television. Television is an electrically instrument that helps us in gaining or share some information surround us. Each of audience targets has their different kind of favorite television program. Meanwhile, we can’t see more than one television channel at one time. Therefore, there are so many symptoms that show us if the deviation of the television function is currently occurred.

Generally, TV is beneficial for our daily life to increase our knowledge and perception. So we might not be left behind about what’s going on around us. Unfortunately, nowaday, the situation do not showing us as well as the advantages of TV should be.

In a family life, sometime we find a main problem because of television. A father needs some news, a mother needs a live cook course, a big brother needs a teenager entertainment, and a little sister wants a kid entertainment.

In some of case, the TV program may presents at the same time. Reducing the dispute, the parents would buy a personal television for their child. Unfortunately, this act will create a brand new problem. The individuality will be appeared inside the house and there will be no warmth also.

Watching TV is a relaxing activity which is allows us to do another kind of activity at the same time. We could share some opinion about what’s the TV has shown us with our parents, or even we could judging what is the suitable TV program for our little brother. Those are the moments that we can’t buy anywhere. But if we have had our individually TV inside our room, perhaps we wouldn’t find those kind of moments.

In conclusion, is a good deal if there’s only a unit of TV placed inside a house. Beside it’s going to reduce the electricity using, the warmth between each of family member to the other will be increased. Because, if a TV blocked our communication with our family, it should have been missed from its main purposes.

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Television : Good and Bad

Television, piece of electrical equipment with a screen on which people can watch moving pictures and sounds, is widely used by people all over the world. Since it has become an almost primary need for family, we easily can find it in everyplace. But, behind all the joy that it gives, there are also some negative effects of television which is dangerous for family life.

Nowadays, most of tv stations received many criticism from different kinds of societies. That happens because today tv stations rarely broadcast a programme which has a good quality. The programme which is shown in television is judged as a non educative show and make people become consumptive. Moreover, someone said a shocking statement in his blog : “When I have a family in the future and the television programmes are still the same, or even worse than today, I would rather bring my family and my children to my village and live there with them, so that they will not be influenced by the ‘trash’ television programme in Indonesia.” It can be understood if the blog writer really feds up with this kind of situation because today most of television programmes are still dominated by the fake drama called ‘sinetron’ and also infotainment, which is said by Mario Teguh -a human resources consultant- is a non sense programme.

Yet, television is still the cheapest source of audio-visual entertainment and information for family. Since almost all families have had this equipment, they don’t really need to read the newspaper to know the latest news. In addition, they can also get the entertaining show easily.

All in all, television has two different sides. But, above all the good things that it gives, it still has more negative impact for the viewers and really dangerous for family life. So, in my opinion, we should be selective in choosing the television programme in order to reduce its bad sides for our family.

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.

Television for children

Television, internet, and radio has been great influences on our life. Although news gleaned from television, radio, or the Internet can be educational, problems can arise the usage of those media are over limited. Too much television can mean less face time with family members and friends. Beside that, what we get in watching television can’t always give us warrant that those information are important for our life. Sometimes it can changes people behaviour instead.

Nowadays, television has become a standard part of our environment in such a way that we hardly even think about it. TV is literally just a piece of furniture to us, and we forget it's there even when it's turned on. Yet, the background noise still distracts us and diminishes the quality of our communication. In family life, especially for parents who have children at home, research has shown that children who consistently spend more than 4 hours per day watching TV are more likely to be overweight. They are doing activity rarely. Kids who view violent events, such as a kidnapping or murder, are also more likely to believe that the world is scary and that something bad will happen to them. Maybe it's better for parents to control the use of TV and to teach children that it's for occasional entertainment, not for constant escapism that can make a big effect of their sense of community when they are growing up.

In America, fifty-one students who were either very heavy soap opera viewers (more than 4 hours per week) or very light soap opera viewers (less than 1 hr. per week) provided different attitude judgments distrust of people. Students who often watch soap opera will have a great tendency in case of distrust people. That’s a big consequences affected by television. Whereas we know that sociality life is the most important thing in through this life, and one way to have a good relation with somebody else is trusting them, just the way they are.

TV, interactive video games, and the Internet can be excellent sources of education and entertainment, but too much plugged-in time can have unhealthy side effects. More or less, children behaviour affected by television. Maybe parents should try to forms their children not to over addicted in watching television in order to form their attitude when they are growing up.

Television, An Important Rules In Our Daily Lives

Television has such an important place in our holdings because it has been a key tool in the creation and expression of cultural change in our lives. It plays significant rules that make our lives has no longer same with our past lives. It also plays important rules in creating a life style and changing cultural orientation. Television gives so many advantages for our lives. It gives so many information and even entertainment to support our daily lives. Television has really become an important household in our lives.

Even though there some statement says that television is dangerous because it destroys family life and any senses of community; instead of visiting people or talking with our family we just watch television, I’m not really agree with that. Personally I think that television exactly bring us a lot of benefits. Television has been provided with a reservoir of manufactured common experience in the form of share images, languages and references, even fictional acquaintances that extends to a national, continental, and global scale.

There are so many television advantages. For instance, nowadays almost everybody in developing countries watch television. Even though they have so many busy activities, they still make a time just for watching television. It’s so needed because they require so many input information that television provides. Television gives a lot of information from all over the world. The news programs tell us what happening in the other parts of world. We can know what occur on the world, from the accident, disaster, political situation, economic expansion till cultural alteration. As entertainment resources, television also gives us with full of entertainment. We can see motion pictures or films with our families and relations to increase our relationship. We can listen to some music programs in order to calm our bad feelings. With sport programs, we can increase our adrenaline. It can release our stress after a full day of activities. Quiz and gossip also some of entertainment that television provides to us. And there are still so many advantages that television provides which make our lives better than before.

In conclusion, television has become an important thing in our lives. By stimulating total engagement of the senses, by fracturing reality into multiple points of views and by restoring type value of oral communications, I believe that television plays significant rules that make the world and our lives enhanced.

Television and Community: Friend or Foe?

When I was second grader at elementary school, I learned that television is one of tertiary needs of people (the needs that not too urgent to be fulfilled and is associated with luxury). Now, television became one of secondary needs. Nearly every house in Indonesia has one TV-set; some of them even have more than one. Almost everyone from every kind of age--even the youngest child who was just able to see--is watching them. They have no idea that television, when used to an extent, could destroy family life and sense of community, at least in my opinion.

It’s not impossible for television to destroy family life. Television is a rapidly data-giver in form of visual images. It’s too rapid that its users are unable to sort and filter those data into “acceptable”, “unacceptable”, and “dangerous”. They are forced to accept those data bluntly. And, kids are the greatest data-keeper; they could accept every data from everywhere. If “dangerous”, false beliefs were planted on those data and a kid watched it, he/she would accept those beliefs and practice it in his/her life. This could lead to destroying family life if that kid chose to defend those beliefs and fight his/her own parents.

Television also can destroy sense of community. The effort to watch television is not big at all; we just have to turn it on and watch, and it happens inside our house too. The effort to socialize, however, is not as small as that. We must go somewhere and meet persons, then attempt to converse with them. Even kids know that watching TV is simpler than socialize, and people tend to choose simpler things for them. For example, there are children in a family I know that don’t socialize very much. They seldom want to go outside to meet their relatives. When their parents ask them why, they replied that they want to catch some TV shows. If all kids these days behave like this, it’s possible that any sense of community will soon be destroyed.

Despite its bad effect, people don’t need to banish it completely. Those bad effects can be countered by good influence and filtering from parents, such as showing them what’s right and what’s wrong and keeping them company while watching TV. And also, there are good programs that could be useful for people, such as documentary and news.

In conclusion, despite the fact that it contains some good program, television has some bad effects when it comes to community, and it needs to be countered by good influence from one’s surroundings such as parents and friends. In the future, people behind TV shows should create lots more of good program, and the government should support it.

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Television, Unite a Family

Nowadays, television is one of primary needs for people. Almost 80% peoples in the world use more than 6 hours of their time to watching television every day. There are so many reasons for people to watch television. Television broadcast a lot of programs to fulfill what people need, for example news, entertainment and sport programs. But, the main reason why people need television is to assemble with their family.

Watching television can gather members of a family. Many peoples use their leisure time to watching television, include peoples in a family. Each member of a family laid their activity aside for a moment to watch an interesting television program. Indirectly, watching television makes a family to come together in a place.

Television gives more than an interesting program for a family. When people and their family watch television, they not only enjoy the television program but also use that time to talk with their family. They can share each other about their activities, experiences and also their feelings. Even, a television program can inspire a family to plan a vacation together. So, Television can unite and improve the quality of a family.

Television, a Hazardous Social Inhibitor

Since the first creation of television (TV), people all over the world are so amazed with its wide audiovisual information broadcasting capability. And now, where almost everyone can afford it, television has become somewhat a primary need for a family. Information and news spreading is indeed important for a society, but the question is, what if the people spend most of their time with this so-called television? In the scope of a global family and neighboring community, I believe that television dangerous, because it is a destructive force towards family life and community. I will explain that first, television create a sense of individualism in common. Secondly, television also restrains social skill growth, particularly in the children.

First, on the point in which television promote sense of individualism in family and community life. Communication and relationship between family member and neighbor is vital for the continuity of life, but television addiction constricts it hardly. Each family member would rather watch their own favorite TV program on certain channel rather than to talk with each other. In other word, television has become a replacement for family interaction. It is a relaxation media indeed, but somehow for parents, TV can be a way of getting away from the kids. And the kids also may think the same, to be free from their parents awhile. But for how long will they do that? An executive director of public health states that “Americans (for comparison because I did not find the data for Indonesians) watch TV the equivalent of 56 days-nonstop- per year or almost as much as 4 hours a day.” Some may say that it could be a time when the whole family watches the same TV program in an occasion, so they can chat and share. Indeed it may, but the frequency is doubted because children and parents have a different choice of TV programs that they could watch together. The children and the parents are more likely to dominate the TV for their own. Furthermore even if in some cases the family often watch TV together, it is still creating a collective individualism. Families prefer watching TV to socializing with their neighbors. Spare time can be a useful time to interact with each other in the community to share and obtain between each other. But the fact, according to the article- Warning: too much TV is Hazardous - in the April 2001 edition of Running and FitNews- “Americans spend 40% of leisure time watching TV.” It is clear that TV has taken over most of the family and community life and form a nonconformist spirit amongst the people.

Secondly, television is also hinder social skill growth, especially in children and adolescents. At their age, it should be the time for them to socialize with their peers and other people. However, as long as the TV exists in their home, children prefer watching TV to meeting people in their neighborhood. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), kids in the United States watch about 4 hours of TV a day, or equivalent to as much as 62 days a year. The children as a result will grow up being less able to be alone and will not learn about social interaction with real people in the real world. They will also loose their sense of solidarity and their ability communicates friendly and politely. This will result to an egoistic and ignorant young generation that if it is not fixed in time, the characteristic will be perpetuated as the generation change, thus creating a cycle of individualistic generation. Some could say that a good communication guideline may exist in TV. But in the television, not all of the contents are good, and in fact there are many violence and brutality in it. Furthermore, even if there are good examples of communicating in television, according to Neil Sutherland in his book Growing Up, “TV, by its very nature offers brief and intense forms of communication which is perhaps the exact opposite of what ideal family interaction should be.” In other words, real and tangible communication in the family and neighborhood is important for the children’s social growth. Yoyok Arseno, the manager of Gapura Seni who held a special art exhibition due to the extreme effect of television to Indonesian children stated boldly that “the children nowadays are growing as an individualist human because of the television.” So, aside of creating individualism, television also hampers the children social development.

From the facts and argumentation above, it is clear that television is a machine of great social destruction towards this global society. It is proven by the point in which firstly it produces an individualistic soul and secondly it impedes social ability growth, chiefly to the children.

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