Nowadays, majority of people cannot avoid Television since almost everyone is watching it. Television has a lot of entertaining programs that gives us topics of conversation. Without watching TV it is hard to have a conversation with other friends. Because people spend time on watching TV a lot, most people think TV is destroying communication among people. Even though many people think TV destroyed communication with others because of its spending time, watching TV promotes to communicate with other people.
We get most information and news through media such as computer, newspaper, and TV. Without knowing news from outside of world through media it is hard to share common topics with others. For instance, I usually don't talk with my father at home because we don't have similar topics. However, we talk each other when we are watching news or soccer. We talk about our thoughts while we are watching TV. TV provides my family topics so that we have better chance to talk with each other.
It not only gives my family common topics but also laugh. At home I don't feel to talk with others when everyone is quiet and gloomy. Once someone laughs while they are watching TV, we start to talk.
At school students don't talk each other frequently except when they talk about TV shows or comedy. For example, one of my friends was a loner at school. He had many friends when he was in Korea because he could talk about anything he wants. Since he doesn't know about American teenagers' culture, he never watched comedy and didn't know about comedy. Although everyone tried to speak with him, they always gave up because he didn't have same common topics with them. I recommended him to watch funny comedies on TV. He started to talk with friends when they talk about comedy on TV.
TV might stop conversation while people are watching, however, after the show they have better chance to talk about it. It will give a common topic for people and laugh. As people have more common, they become friends. From many aspects, watching TV doesn't destroy communication among people. |