Why people shouldnt watch television too much

Most adults and children are spending their free time by watching television. Since it is
cheap, and easily available to the general public, more and more people are spending their
time by watching it. Thats why television is largest mass media around the world.
Unfortunately, this resource is not being used so that people could get all benefits from it.
Main reason is concept of TV program and lack of educational contents. TV programme
nowadays, mostly contains movies, series, and shows that present scenes of violence, sex,
and drugs and reality shows. This has established wrong concepts among the audience that
influence them into having a negative behaviour. More concerning is the impact this
tendency has on children because they grow up with the idea of a world where women
must be good looking to stand out, where problems can only be solved with money and
violence, where abusing of drugs and alcohol isnt so bad and where wars are inevitable and
sometimes even welcomed. Music videos may have a significant behavioural impact by
desensitizing viewers to violence and making teenagers more likely to approve of premarital sex . Up
to 75% of videos contain sexually explicit material, and more than half contain violence that is often
committed against women. Women are portrayed frequently in a condescending manner that
affects childrens attitudes about sex roles.
The second reason why people shouldnt watch too much television is the amount of lost
time that could be used in more beneficial or productive activities. The time we spend
watching TV could be used for activities like physical exercise, reading, art, communicating
with friends and relatives, activities that are a crucial for a healthy and educational lifestyle.
For example, transferred to years, people spent more than 16.000 years on watching
Gangnam style music video. According to The Economist, for that time people could have
built more than four Great Pyramids of Giza, or another Wikipedia, or six Burj Khalifas in
Dubai - the worlds tallest building.
The third reason why people shouldnt watch too much television is because it negatively
affects on peoples mental development. According to several scientific studies, watching TV
for prolonged periods of time has a negative effect over the intellectual development of
children and leads to deterioration of the mental capacity in older people by causing both
attention and memory problems in the long term. More recent and well-controlled studies
show that even 1 h to 2 h of daily unsupervised television viewing by school-aged children has a
significant deleterious effect on academic performance, especially reading .
In conclusion, people shouldnt watch too much television because the content of many TV
programs is not educational; it makes people waste time that could be used in more
beneficial activities; and it affects peoples mental development. However, this doesnt
mean that we should exclude TV from our lives, but if we are going to watch it, we should
do it with moderation, and we should choose what kind of program we are watching .
Television should be used as a resource through the right selection of programs and by
taking an active and critical attitude especially when we watch it with children. Also we
should take care of ratings of TV shows and avoid exposure of inappropriate content to
children.