There is a natural tendency to think that TV deprives families or friends of valuable time to build inter-relationship. This calls into a question whether or not TV is harmful to people's modern life. Even though it seems true that TV has its own disadvantage, I strongly believe that it has a lot of positive sides.The reason is because that TV provides plenty of common topics to share with friends or family. Besides, with the help of TV, family tie can be fortified.
To begin with, TV gives a great number of topics to people. it is evident when we think that people tend to need some common subjects to make friends or build a relationship. The common story can make atmosphere warm and be a kind of ice-breaker between people.To illustrate this point, a few years ago, 'Gilmore girls', the American TV drama has been so popular here in Korea. I was also a big fan of it. Because the drama was about the story between mother and daughter, many female friends of mine liked to share their thoughts on the episode.Thanks to the drama, I could build the stronger relationship with my friends. In this respect, it is obvious that TV can play a positive role among people.
On top of that, TV enables family members to gather together. The important reason is that plenty of families have a small talk watching a television program.To be more specific, every evening, my family members aggregate in the living room to watch a night news.While watching the news, we often exchange each other's opinion on the story of the news, or just say ordinary daily life. Actually, the time of watching TV is very important time for my family bond. This clearly proves that TV can have a significant effect on the strengthening of family relationship.
To summarize what I mentioned above, I am in favor of the opinion that TV plays a important role in modern society. On the whole, I believe that if it were not for TV, our life would be very dry and monotonous. |