TELEVISION IS HARMFUL! (2nd Term)

Today, television is like one of our family members. Everybody has television in their houses. And it is one of the most influential communication devices. Most people regard television as a useful device. But I don’t think it is useful, whereas, it is harmful for people, especially young people.

Television has a lot of harmful effects on human health. First, it has bad effects on our eye health. We, people, watch television for at least 2 hours a day. When our eyes are exposed to the bright LED light this comes from television screen, we have a visual impairment. Secondly, televisions emit a lot of radiation. Radiation is harmful for every member of families but its effects are on children mostly. When children are exposed to too much radiation, their both mental and physical development is affected. All these things are harmful on human health. Television is also harmful for bone or skeleton health because while people watching it, they move very little and their bones develops very slowly.

Television also changes people’s daily routine, make them not do their jobs or achieve their goals.  First, there are a lot of women who watches television so deeply that she can’t realise how time went and it became evening. Also, if children or students do their in the room in which there is a television, their concentration on their homework and their goals are less than normal, and they lose their attention. It causes people to read fewer books and to move or act less. This leads people to become less intellectual people. People forget about their friends and their social life while they are watching TV. They contact with their friends rarely. They become asocial individuals.  

However there are some people who think television is useful when it is watched for gaining knowledge or information or for educational purposes. But there are a lot of knowledge or information sources which we can use without any harmful effect. For example, reading a book or a newspaper we can also gain information. Almost everybody has Internet in their houses. We can use Internet as a fast and safe information source. Watching television for gaining information takes too much time. Reading or surfing on the Net is much easier and short in length.

To conclude, television has a lot of harmful effects on people in terms of their life and their health. Most people regard television as a useful device but its harms are much more than we think we know. We shouldn’t allow it to be a member of our family. We should use it for 1 hour at most if we want to protect our health. We shouldn’t let our children watch it too much as it affects them badly in terms of real life and school life. And we must keep in mind television is our enemy not friend.