There is an argument that watching television doesn't help communication among friends and families. Some people may argue that watching television is beneficial because it provides conversation topics and also it will help shorten the generation gap. However, from my viewpoint, watching television isn't a good way to learn to communicate among friends and families. Because not only people have no time to communicate, but also talking materials would only be about television.
To begin with, people won't concentrate on communication with their friends and families. That's because they won't talk while watching television; when they watch it, they absorbed by it and concentrate it. Then they aren't able to figure our and understand what their friends and families are saying. For example, my friend, Minguan, really wanted to tell about his school life his mother. However, as she really liked television, she would watch it ten hours everyday. So he didn't have a chance to communicate with his mother. She just watched television annoying her offspring. The worse situation was when he got a good score on his mid-terms. His mother didn't know his news because she couldn't hear his voice. As a result, conversation between his mother and he was broken by television.
On top of that, as people watch television when they gather together with their families and friends, It limits their conversation topics. Watching television more and more, their experience in life will decrease, and they won't talk about their routine life. For instance, if there is a student who watching television all day long and don't play with his/her friends, s/he will be isolated in a school because s/he doesn't have any materials to communicate with others. While other students are talking about interesting events that happened in extracurricular activities, they will not understand about what they say. People shouldn't consider television on conversation topics in their life.
In conclusion, it is apparent that the television decrease conversation among friends, families and people's lives. The reason is that the television diminishes concentration on communication and talking subjects. People have to eliminate televisions in their schools or houses to improve a good environment for communication. |