Advantages / Disadvantages of Watching Television

Nowadays , television has become the most popular media of mankind. It’s also the indispensable device in our daily life. By watching TV, we can see many things happened in the entire world. It helps us to catch and avoid being dropped back from the world of information. Everyone agree that television is one of the most important inventions in transforming information history. When the first television program was broadcasted, a new age era had begun, the age of image transformations. Television nowadays has been very popular, and almost every family has the access to it. By sitting ideally at home, we can get a whole look all over the world. The appearance of television and television broadcasting enriches our entertainments. Many events and competitions can be watched “live” and many exclusive movies are presented as well (although it’s a bit late in comparison with seeing those movies in the cinema), but all are legal and you’re free to enjoy them. In addition, if you want to travel but do not have enough money, you can enjoy traveling by watching TV (for example watching the discovery channel or national geography channel).

            Furthermore, the television is considered as the unlimited source of information. There are a lot of scientific channels which are fitting for all ages. Those are the fastest and cheapest way to improve your knowledge. Today , television provides many channels, each channel shows different program such as news, sport, film, etc.

            Without good time management, we may waste lots of time watching TV. If one day, a person spends an hour watching TV without gaining any useful information, then in one year he will waste 365 hours and in 10 year is 3605 hours. Instead, he/she can use that time to learn several languages as well as finish some studying course. Moreover, television programs sometime are not always appropriate for all ages. There are some movies contain sexual stuff and violence which affects the stormy phase of growing children and teenagers and even it should not be watched by some adults as well. It will be extremely dangerous if parents neglect their children to view the TV program themselves as they will immediately take influence of what they see. It is suggested that parents must supervise their children while watching TV. Spending hours watching TV especially in a very close distance is harmful to our eyesight.

            In conclusion. It can be stated that Television program gives us many advantages but it will harm our adolescent life if they do not have sufficient control from Parents or adults.

Adapted from “Road to Succed National Exam English Subject”