Boob Tube
Technology
has an important place in our lives. It makes our life easier, but it also
steals most of our time in vain. Especially television is a good example for
it. We aimlessly spend lots of our time in front of TV, but at the same time we
learn many things from it. However, considering its negative effects, we can
clearly say that watching television cannot be beneficial to us.
The
first and the most dangerous effect of excessive watching of TV is its negative
physical effects on our health. Firstly, it pushes us to consume much more food
than we need via the advertisements. While we are watching TV, we want to snack excessively or to drink so much because we see
always these kinds of things in TV. In other words, these kinds of things push
us to eat more via the advertisements which mostly include consumption. Moreover, it significantly decreases our physical activity; as a result our
society is becoming overweight and obese. Secondly, it gives off radioactive rays which are very
harmful to our brain and eyes. It affects our eyes and causes many eye
disorders such as cataracts. As a result, excessive watching of TV damages our physical
health.
Another
important group of effects of too much watching of TV is its bad social effects
on us. Firstly, as I mentioned above, we aimlessly spend most of our time in
front of TV. Instead of spending time with our family or with our friends, we
prefer to watch TV. It prevents us from studying,
making our responsibilities, resting, traveling, talking with our friends, and
going to cinemas or theaters etc. Although television does not share our
feelings or relieves us, we choose it. Because of this communication gap in our
life, deep problems appear in our social life. Secondly, TV serials, programs
or advertisements usually include violence, pornography or racism. Such
contents are unacceptable and unethical according to every human being and they
cause moral deterioration in the society. Especially children are affected from
this. Consequently, television has many negative effects on our social life.
Those
who think that Television is a beneficial device may be right to some extent
because we can learn many things via the TV. Firstly, proponents of TV assert
that documentaries, quiz shows or newscast inform us. However, this does not mean
that TV always teaches us useful things because we do not see always these
kinds of programs in TV. In additionally, we can attain them other ways. For
example, we can buy a dvd to watch a film or documentary. Moreover, media is
biased because they work for money and do not demonstrate news objectively, so
we cannot trust them. Secondly, they claim that TV relieves us after an
exhausting day, but in fact it does not relieve us, but in fact it causes insomnia, restlessness and sadness. For example,
colors in the TV and addiction of it lead to fatigue and insomnia rather than
relieve us. Furthermore, bad news make us sadder because they repeat them one
after another. Luxurious lives in TV and unattainable body images for men and
women also affect adversely the psychology of the people and make them sadder. As
a result, TV negatively affects our psychology
rather than relieving or informing us.
In conclusion, people who want to justify that
television is a beneficial technological device are wrong since it is apparent
that it is very harmful for us. Firstly, it has damaging effects on our health
due to radioactive rays which are emitted by this device. Secondly, it destroys our social life and the
society. Finally, it is very harmful for our psychological life. These are only
some of its dangerous effects. There are much more than these. Germans called
this machine as ‘’boob tube’’, so let us protect our health, children, family and
society from this ‘’boob tube’’.
I find this video very informative. The man talking in video relates the effects of watching too much television. I liked it very much and wanted to share it with you. I hope you will like it.
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