Watching television has many effects upon us, most of them not very good. I am one of those people who thinks television is generally really bad for us, but I will try to think of at least one positive effect.
Watching television tends to make us overweight and even obese. This is because we are not moving around when we watch television, simply sitting. And those people who snack while they are watching television are...
Watching television has many effects upon us, most of them not very good. I am one of those people who thinks television is generally really bad for us, but I will try to think of at least one positive effect.
Watching television tends to make us overweight and even obese. This is because we are not moving around when we watch television, simply sitting. And those people who snack while they are watching television are even more likely to have a weight problem, since we are usually not really mindful of what we are eating or that we might be eating too much.
Watching television makes us anti-social. This is an isolating activity, even when we watch television with others. We are focused on the screen, not on the people around us, and thus we isolate ourselves, even in a crowded room.
Watching television makes us passive, uncritical audiences, exerting no control over what we take in. When I read, I am actively engaged with the reading, and I control the pace of what I read. A television program spoon feeds us the content, at a pace we cannot change.
On the other hand, television can bring us knowledge we might not otherwise have, and it presents it in visual images that can be better sometimes than words. It opens worlds to us that we might otherwise have no knowledge of, for example, another culture or animals we would have no opportunity to see in a zoo.
I have not watched television in approximately two years now, and I really don't feel like I'm missing much of anything, except perhaps being overweight, passive, and anti-social.
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