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 programs that help us inmany fields such as study,science, medicine, arts and so on . Moreover, television benefits our elders who are unable to see the outside world the so it acts as an entertainment mode for them as well as the patients in hospital .

On the other hand ,there are several disadvantages of television. Of course, it provudes us with a pleasant way to relax and spend our free time. Many children stare at television screen for more hours each than they do anything else,incluing studying and sleeping . It shows powerful influence on their lives that its influence is often negative.

Another effect of t.v. on the human brain is that it seems to cause poor concentration.

Another disadvantage is that television program givespeople a certain kind of dissatisfaction with their own lives. Their real lives does not seem to be appealing and glamorous to them as of the t.v. actors . To such people the screen life becomes more realistic than real struggling life, this makes their life seems boring. Also, many people get upset and depressed when they are unable to solve their problems just like as the actors do it quickly.

Before a child is fourteen years old, he /she watches numerous murders and crime related scenes that to them,committing a crime is not a big deal. Studies have also proven that people become violent after watching certain t.v. shows and imitate the scenes they saw on screen.

People often feel a strange and powerful need to watch television even when they don't enjoy. Addiction to a television screen is similar to that of drugs and alcohol.

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