These days, television is a main source of delivering messages to people, such as news, entertainment, advertisement, etc. However, a group of people became concerned that televisions can cause addiction where it influences people to only watch it and refuse to have contact with family members or join society. This essay aims to prove that televisions will not affect a person’s way of living with their family and external community.
Television provides various entertainments for people to enjoy, for example TV shows, series, and movies. From the existing of variety channels, it will increase the rate of quality time with the family since family members can watch contents on television together. The time that is spent together can also create a strong bond within the family instead of watching shows individually in personal rooms. For instance, cooking shows that on air every weekend can influence family members to do some cooking together.
Watching television also gives a great and adequate number of events occurring in the world. News that are announce such as the Covid-19 pandemic rises people’s awareness, resulting to sharing the affair to one another to spread the news. From this example, people still get to interact and discuss with others from the news they have received. The way people discuss among others prevents the opportunity to be isolated and loss of community sense.
In conclusion, television or monitors will not destroy family bonds or engagement in society, since television provides both heart-warming for the family to spend time together and brings news for people to talk with one another.