Cause and Effect-Influance of Televison on our life.

Television

It is an evening like thousands of others. It is a time to relax after a long day of school. With the bowl of popcorn and can of soda, I take a place in the comfortable chair. With my right hand, I am desperately searching for a plastic object that always lays on the table. I finally got it; it’s a remote, now I can take my every day trip to fantasy world. I will sit here for a couple of hours enjoying the world of television. This scene is familiar to all of us; we probably can not even imagine life without TV. For some of us, it has become our best friend.
Television was developed in 1935; immediately, it became a hit with everybody wanting to have one. Soon the TV was in almost every house all over the globe. With such large popularity, the need for new programs and movies became greater, and effected the growth of many new TV stations. Now there are thousands of stations all over the world and technological progress allows us to watch them all. TV became a part of our culture.

In these times watching the TV has become part of our every day activities. People can satisfy their curiosity watching news and relax watching their favorite shows or movies. Television has affected our life by showing us how other people live and dress. This may makes us want to be like others. Commercials between the shows promote many products that invite us to buy them. Selling became an unbreakable part of TV. For some people TV is an escape from hard reality by showing how you can live if you are rich and popular. Most of the movies show the beautiful people with tons of money, living without the worries, doing what they want to do; all the things that are unreachable for most people. It also shows science-fiction and fantasy movies, which take place in other worlds or times. These are rich with characters that are not human beings but creatures from outer space. That is why TV is so popular; we can watch it and for a moment think that we are someone else or think that we are not alone in this space. We can also laugh from other people’s mistakes or adventures watching the comedy shows or cry watching the drama shows.

Still if we look on the other side of the coin, we can see a bad side of television. Some shows create images that you can do something wrong and get out of it unpunished. They show murders and bank robbers that are never caught and live happily ever after. They show fights and wars like they are child’s play; this makes people believe in crime and sometimes encourages them to participate. This creates a false image of the world in some people, because if you do something wrong it will usually catch up with you sooner or later. Also wars are not an escapade with a couple of buddies but pain and suffering for people.

The TV is slowly erasing the differences between people; everybody wants to look like others, just like people shown on television. We want to fit in, so we depend on TV to show us how. We depend on TV to tell us accurate news from around the world, and we always think that they are true. Nobody expects that news can be little spiced up or faked; for example, if you see person who was in some accident that was previously shown on TV and they will tell you what really happened you would say, “But on the news they said…….”

Before the TV was developed, more people were reading books and spending time out with the family.
By reading a book a person can develop a good imagination and can create their own movie in their head. With the television many people do not like to read any more, they would like to watch the movie made from the book. The traditions like eating dinner by the table with the family turned into eating and watching TV. Conversations over dinner are replaced with the staring into the glass screen. Also not as many parents read to their kids before bed time, instead they allow them to watch cartoons until late. This also affects their reading skills. Uncontrollable watching of TV greatly affects a kid’s life; if they grow up watching brutal movies, they will think that this is normal, and that can lead to the tragedy when some day that kid will kill someone.

Because of these reasons, we have to ask our selves: “What is good for us to watch and for our family?” “Are there are different things that I can do instead watching television?” Reasonable watching of TV is not bad, but we have to draw the line, maybe sometime instead of spending hours in front of it we can read a book or spend time with our friends or family. By watching TV, we will not improve our skills or make a new friend; we have to get up and go outside to find them.

It is a fact that since the television was created it greatly influenced our life and changed our view on the world. Watching it may have many good sides and many bad sides. It is our own choice to decide how and when to use it. Two things viewers should remember is that not everything shown on television is true, and that many times viewing it will not do anyone any good.