CAUSE AND EFFECT ESSAY – TV CONSUME

CAUSE AND EFFECT ESSAY – TV CONSUME

Nowadays, TV is a not avoidable part of life. You can find a television in every house or office. Even children have their own televisions.  But what are the effects on humanity? Sure watching too much TV is one of the major sociological issues of this century, which has many effects on the phsyiology and psychology of adults and children.

One of the most important physiological effects of watching Tv in excessive amounts is eating disorders. People are captured by the TV, they never get enough of it. So they begin to eat in front of the television. Their meals are often unhealthy because they also don’t take the time to cook a healthy meal. Besides, they are very inactive and don’t do anything else. As a consequence, people get eating disorders and have to deal with obesity.

Apart from the physiological effects, TV also causes psychological effects. For instance, people have less communication, today. Instead of meeting a friend at the weekend, people prefer to sit in front of the TV. Even people living in the same house don’t talk to each other. As a result, people have no social life. In a society they have problems to communicate and need to be socialized.

Another important pyschological effect is being exposed to violence. After seeing so many violent scenes on TV, people start considering violent actions normal and they lose their sensitivity to their environment. Due to this violent scenes people tend to agression. TV programs with violent content, especially influence the behavior of children. So, the next generation is going to be agressive and violent.

Shortly, we have to learn how to benefit from the television. TV need to be used for the right purpose only – being educated and entertained for a reasonable period of time. Even if we cannot avoid the television completely, we can reduce the consume.