LITERATURE: TELEVISION AFFECTS THE WAY WE COMMUNICATE
Technology plays a major role in contemporary, with its rapid information dissemination and the comfort it gives in our daily lives. It is clear that we have become reliant on technology. It has affected the lives of the greater population, influencing our preferences and quality of living. One of the biggest contributors to this technology explosion fiasco would be television or the glowing tube inside every household.
It made us sacrifice our time, leisure, passion and even our personal relationships with other people. We spend a huge amount of time everyday affront the silver screen without realizing the ill effects it does to us. Subtly, it has an enormous effect on the way we communicate with other people.
DISINTEREST
Television provides fast and comprehensive information. Unlike the huge time and effort we invest on talking, listening and reading, the visual media does all the effort for us with its colorful graphics and frame by frame materials.
LACK OF CONCENTRATION
While the television is on, it competes for our attention with homework, phone calls, cooking a meal and doing other household chores. We learned to listen with half an ear. It taught us that it is plainly normal to listen for just a little amount of time and checking what’s on, instead of making us concentrate and focus more on the details.
THE POWER OF CLICKING
Whenever a show bores or disinterests us, we demonstrate our freedom to change the channel with just one flick of a finger. This would strongly affect our communication with others in a sense that whenever someone is talking about a certain topic, we would likely tune them off or just pretend to be listening instead of engaging in a sensible communication with them.
TREND SETTING
Commercials, MTV’s and Lifestyle shows depict a preset unique vision with universally accepted perceptions. These images suggest that our own ideas and preferences are not satisfactory in the public eye. It somehow lurks the idea that there should be oneness in thinking and it fits the greater population better. This consequently affects our freedom to discover new ideas and voice out our own personal preferences towards other people in society.
In the long run, it will still be our own prerogative if we will let television affect us or not.
