Pros and cons watching television..

Nowadays, television(TV) plays an important role in one's life. Besides being the source of information, it provides endless entertainment for the whole family. As a result, every family now owns a TV or maybe more as TV is now becoming a medium to unite a family. Everyone will surely agree that there many advantages and disadvantages watching TV. Let me discuss the advantages first.

Firstly the TV brings us news from all over the world. Political happenings, social events, festivals, people, places and almost everything from all parts of the world comes to us through the TV set at home. We just do not have to spent a big sum of money to go overseas to get the news. The most interesting event I recently witness from the TV was President's Obama's inauguration and I would hear his great speech. Events showing political instability in countries like Thailand, gives me fears too. There are also many programs showing the beauties and scenaries in other countries that I can see and enjoy without having to spent my money.


Furthermore, TV can be considered as a path for the students to improve their knowledge. There are several channel which provide many programmes that can help students in their studies especially in science like in Discovery Channel, TVIQ, National Geographic Channel and more. As we all know, in science there are many things which need us to imagine for instance mitosis and meiosis processes. It'll be difficult for us to see the processes with our naked eyes. However, now students can see the real processes by watching it only in the TV. Thus, it can help them to improve their studies.


For housewives, or elderly people who stay at home most of the time, the television is in fact their best friend and best company. Malay, Chinese, Tamil, Hindustani, Korean, Japanese and Indonesian dramas are shown throughout the day keeping them company. I have heard of housewives glued to the TV set every Saturdays to watch Hindustani movies. These dramas also teach us a lot about life and the characters of people. Usually bad people will end up being punished either by God or by authorities. I myself like to watch Chinese serial dramas because of the moral lessons they give. Many of my Malay friends also like to watch Chinese dramas.
Children are also not left out. There are many programs planned for children like cartoons, animal adventures, quizzes and explorations. Actually children can learn a lot by watching cartoons like Teletubbies, Barbie, Cinderella and many more.


Despite all the advantages, we must not forget that there are also many disadvantages watching TV. Lately, social problems involving teenagers are becoming wide spread. From a research done, one of the factor of this problem is that the teenagers are badly influence by TV programmes. The programmes which contain sexual scene and violence are not being filtered. This can affect the growing phase of the teenagers as their mind are not really matured. Some of them will follow what they see from the TV because they are curious to know. That is why the percentage of social problems are increasing day by day. Many crimes are being committed by imitating the crime movies on TV.


Another very disturbing fact is that students get addicted to the TV and thus forget their studies. They watch shows most of the time and thus neglect their homework . This is especially so during the AF or Academy Fantasia Singing Contest every Saturdays. Students waste a lot of time concentrating on TV shows instead of studying. This will also give bad effect to their health. When they spend most of their time in front of the TV, the light from the TV will give effect to their eyes. This can lead to dim of eyesight. This will disturb the students' concentration when they're studying.

In summary, TV has brings advantages and disadvantages in one's life. Though, everyone must be responsible to appriciate one of our source of information and communication. Parental supervision are needed to control their children from watching uncensored scene from the television.