Advantages And Disadvantages Of Watching Tv

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Points for and against watching TV Undoubtedly, the television set has been and still is one of the most important ingenious inventions ever made. However, watching it has advantages as well as disadvantages. One major advantage is that television constitutes a valuable source of information, news and entertainment. So, people enjoy watching TV programmes, series, soap-operas, movies and are aware of what is happening all over the world through news and certain programmes. Another major advantage of watching TV is that people can learn and acquire knowledge through it by watching cultural TV programmes, educational programmes, cookery ones, religious ones, musical ones, documentaries among others. So, human beings enrich their vision of the world and benefit from those programmes. Television makes the viewer completely passive because everything is presented to them without any effort on their part. Finally, people can just entertain and forget about their everyday lives by watching TV.…show more content…
To start with, television is a profusion of sex, violence and profanity scenes. Consequently, it can cause serious behaviour problems especially in children and adolescents. Aggressive behaviour at school towards classmates or friends or at home towards their family is a good example. Another disadvantage of watching TV is that some films or TV programmes where violence and aggressive actions take place can in a way encourage youths and children to emulate such conduct in their own lives without control. Finally, another disadvantage is that children and teens are exposed to films or TV shows which are inappropriate for their age and stage of development, which causes a sound confusion about what, is good or bad to
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