Negative Influences of Television

             Television is an electronic tool that is owned by many people. People in the country and also in the town use it to spend their leisure time. Television is not special thing anymore now. Everyone can buy it easily with cheap price, so it means that watching television is the simplest entertainment can be done. It does not need much money and time. We only have to connect the television with the electricity and after that sit down in front of television after turning it on. Television does not only entertain people through its entertainment program, but also gives people some information. Maybe, it seems like a newspaper. But, television is more instant and interesting than newspaper. Television shows many images in full colored set and produces sound. So, I think because of this, many advertisement companies prefer to choose television as media for promoting product. It looks that television has many function for human life.

            Watching television now becomes a habit for almost people. Everywhere, they always need to watch television even they are doing something. The simple example is I. Frankly speaking, I was addicted of television since a long time ago. I always watched television while I was studying or doing something else and it is continued until now. Beside that, because of this addiction, I also often get up late. Actually, I know that it is bad habit, but I cannot do anything. It naturally cannot be stopped. More over, the quality of television program now increases so it makes many people become more interested. It does not only happen on me as a teenager, but it also happens on elder people.

            Television is different from other media. It is completed by full colored images and many sounds, so it causes people prefer to choose television. As I told you before, television is more interesting, especially if it is used to promote some products. In advertisement world, many advertisement companies show the superiority of their products in order to make people become interested on the product. It is one of the advertisement company’s tricks to distribute their products. For me, it is not a problem if the product does not give bad effect. But, sometimes it precisely makes people become consumptive, cannot stop to consume the product. One of the real samples is, when I feel that there is something different in my face, such as pimple comes out after stopping to consume a lightening cream product. It means that I have to consume that product continuously and I am conscious that I was cheated.

            From those explanations, finally we know that television is important for human life because it has many functions. Its programs entertain people in leisure time, give information, and help the advertisement company to promote some products. But, nothing perfect in this world. Beside has many function, in fact television also gives some negative influences. People can be addictive and consumptive, or the worse thing is some advertisement products will cheat people. It depends on us. We should be more critical to face the real fact of television.