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Impact of Television on Our Lives

Television can enhance knowledge and provide companionship for the elderly and patients, while also aiding language learners. However, excessive viewing can lead to negative effects, such as poor concentration, dissatisfaction with real life, and increased aggression in children. The influence of television is significant, often causing viewers to prefer fictional lives over their own, leading to a distorted perception of reality.

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Impact of Television on Our Lives

Television can enhance knowledge and provide companionship for the elderly and patients, while also aiding language learners. However, excessive viewing can lead to negative effects, such as poor concentration, dissatisfaction with real life, and increased aggression in children. The influence of television is significant, often causing viewers to prefer fictional lives over their own, leading to a distorted perception of reality.

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How does television affect our lives?

It can be very helpful to people who carefully


choose the shows that they watch Television can increase our knowledge of the outside
world; there are high quality programmes that help us understand many fields of study,
scienace, medicine, the arts and so on. Moreover, television benefits very old people who
can’t often leave the house, as well as patients in hospital. It also offers non-native
speakers the advantage of daily informal language practice. They can increase their
vocabulary and practice listening. On the other hand, there are several serious
disadvantages to television. Of course, it provides us with a pleasant way to relax and spend
our free time, but in some countries, people watch the ‘boob-tube’ for an average of six hours
or more a day. Many children stare at a television screen for more hours each day than
they do anything else, including studying and sleeping. It’s clear that the tube has a
powerful influence on their lives and that its influence is often negative. Recent studies
show that after only thirty seconds of watching television, a person’s brain ‘relaxes’ the
same way that it does just before the person falls asleep. Another effect of television on
the human brain is that it seems to cause poor concentration. Children who view a lot
of television can often concentrate on a subject for only fifteen to twenty minutes. They
can pay attention only for the amount of time between commercials. Another disadvantage is
that television often causes people to become dissatisfied with their own lives. Real life
does not seem as exciting to these people as the lives of actors on the screen To many
people television becomes more real than reality and their own lives ... boring. Also
many people get upset or depressed when they can’t solve problems in real life as
quickly as television actors seem to. Before a child is fourteen years old, he or she
views eleven thousand murders on the tube. He or she begins to believe that there is
nothing strange about fights, killings and other kinds of violence. Many studies show that
people become more violent after certain. Programmes they may even do the things that
they saw in a violent show.
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