The Advantages and Disadvantages of Watching Television

In this modern era, television has become our necessity. Every family
tends to have one or more television sets at home. Television channels us
with all sorts of information that are useful for our lives.

The rationale of watching television is that it can help consumers to

make choices on which product to buy. Television has become one of the
main advertising agents and many manufacturers cannot do away with it.
They advertise their products through television. The information contained
in the advertisements enable us as consumers to make comparisons. In this
manner, we can buy the products that are most suitable for us.

Besides, television can act as a medium to ease stress among workers

and students. Television provides us with a wide range of show variety. We
can watch slapstick comedies and all sorts of drama genre from all over the
world in many kinds of languages. We can also learn other languages as it is
quite usual for viewers like us to pick up the languages from watching the
melodramas.

Watching television also can unite all family members as we all watch
and gather in front of the television. It can strengthen the family’s members
closer to each other. Watching television also can strengthen the unity of the
races and fortify the integration among the citizens. We can see that during
the footballs festive, all people from all walks of life gather in front of the
television to watch football match at the restaurants. They will enjoy and
cheer together whenever their favourite’s teams score goals.

There is nothing entirely perfect. Advantages must be accompanied by

disadvantages. Sometimes, television broadcasters, they do not take into
account about the sense of violence and cruelty that present in their movies
or dramas they have broadcasted. This type of movies will affect and then
stir the minds of the youngsters to attempt or realize the violent or cruel
actions they have watched.

The exceeded time of watching television will cause youngsters

especially students indulge themselves watching their favourite movies or
dramas and become addicted to it. If this situations are to be severed or
protracted, our valued young generation will drift away and waste their
precious moments in life where they actually should be studying and revising
instead of watching television.
 The pros and cons of watching television are visible to us and we should
use our brain endowed by God to choose which is the best for us. The choice
is in our hands.