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Some people argue that the television has had a greater effect on people's lives than the telephone has. I totally disagree with this idea. I think that the telephone has much bigger impact on people's lives for two reasons.
To begin with, advent of the telephone changed the form of families dramatically. Before the arrival of the telephone, family members were afraid of living apart since they couldn't contact each other once they moved out. Thanks to the telephone, they were able to live apart as they wanted to. For instance, older parents might want to live in the country side where they were grown up and young people might want to go to big cities to get a job. Some of the family members might want to leave their hometown to pursue their own dreams. After the arrival of the telephone, it was available for them to lessen the burden of worrying each other and to help each other once they got other's messages. This led to changed form of family from large one to smaller one.
Secondly, telephone made some critical innovations in modern society because they made it possible to share the information instantly. Through the telephone, there aren't any obstacles like high mountains or rivers. Also, they can communicate each other at the same time, without gap in time. This instant and limitless feature made some important innovations. For instance, weather forecast began to develop after the advent of the telephone, since they were able to share the weater information from other regions at the same time. Sharing information about other regions through the telephone significantly enhanced the accuracy of the weather forecast. Also, people could make the alarm system against epidemics or natural disasters by sharing information. Without the alarm system through the telephone, tons of lives might be sacrificed. From those renovations like weatehr forecast and alarm system, people's lives became a different one from the previous one.
To conclude, telephone made greater effect on people's lives since they changed the form of families, and they led the major innovations to come up in modern society. It is true that television has more attractive features, however, telephone has much more influential impact on people's lives. |