Do you agree with this statement?
Television has destroyed communication among friends and family
Modern days people probably would prefer watching television instead of playing hide and seek or would prefer watching television to talking with their family while having dinner. In addition, many families have more then one television so that each family member can sit in front of their own television and watch what he or she wants to watch. Television has obviously destroyed communication among friends and family.
Today, there are so many interesting and exiting things on television that we can not experience by ourselves. Whether they are adult or children, they love to watch it. Since, they can not experience it directly, but people usually feel vicarious satisfaction during watching it. So it leads people to stop communicating together and just rely on the television to relax their souls and bodies. For example, many people love to watch something they can not do about, like television drama “CSI”. Since they feel it is really interesting and at the same time they feel they live vicariously through television.
Television is a completely individual thing. Because there are a lot of television programs that can amuse you doing nothing but watching television. Just by looking at objects or people on a television, people can be entertained. Sometimes its attraction is too strong that people can’t hear anything but just only the sounds from television, even if somebody were calling you right next to you. Take a cartoon “Sponge bob” as an example, children usually don’t answer you when they watching it. Because, it attracts them very strongly.
Once you buy a television, it is very cheap to watch television to enjoy. So, some people prefer to watch television instead of hang out with their friends or go to theater with their family on their weekends. Also, one of the big reasons that television disturbs us to communicate together is that there are so many interesting television programs focused at night time and during weekends, the time when we have the biggest opportunity to gather with family and friends.. For example, in most region Oprah Winfrey show and Friends are on the air at night time. So, many people say to their friends that they should go back to their house, because they want to watch “Friends” or “Oprah Winfrey Show”.