13 Haziran 2013 Perşembe

JOURNAL ENTRY 3

TIME THIEF
In our age technology so developed that we are surrounded by a great number of technological devices. One of them is became a part of our lives. We cannot spend even a day without it. This device is television. Television’s effects on human being are so much that no one can believe. Watching television is one of the most common spare time activities and consumes most of our time.
            Watching television waste away our time. We are so addicted to the television that we cannot understand how the time runs away. Firstly we spent our entire spare time by watching television. Although there are a lot of plentiful activities, we just sit and look at the screen. Reading book, go out and wandering around or exercise these are more useful for us than watching television. Secondly television steals not just our free time. We postpone our other works for watching a television serial. Than our works so pile up that we do them correctly. To sum up television is just like a time stealing thief.
            Television can gives us some wrong information about history, policy and some new developments. Some television series about early or late history can be deceptive, because they trying to make people watch the serial so they have to change some occurrences. If people, who watch these serials, have not enough knowledge level can believe this fiction can learn wrong information about our history. Also media can reflect us wrong information about world news. They can tender us some news after add or eject some really important things. For example; if somewhere exploded media does not give us exact number of wounded people for fear of this number can cause eyebrows to rise. Also media can reflect us deceptive data, may introduce us innocent as criminal. So we can never know what the truth is.
            Although all these harms of television some people can claim that television has very beneficial effects on our lives. We can reach all information about the whole world thanks to the television. We can watch some informative documentaries and increase our level of knowledge about nature, history and so on. On the contrary researches show that the level of watching documentaries or news is too low. Most people use television to watch television serials and these serials do not increase our knowledge level at all. Also if someone wants to learn watching television is not the only way of knowledge acquisition. He or she can look at the information by the way of internet or can investigate in books. Some people say claims that watching television enhances our imagination power. I think this claim is very wrong. All of these serials or cartoons on television are the same. They present the same story and topic again and again. Instead of improving our imagination, they are just like barriers in our mind. Imagination is our mind and watching television certainly is not a way to improve it. Television makes us stereotypes. We need to see different things to improve ourselves not to watch same things over and over again.
            Television’s effects on our life are growing day by day. While technology is improving features of television are improving at the same time. Offers of television are increasing and continue to make us addicted. We have to be careful we need to direct ourselves more useful and beneficial source of knowledge. Of course we watch television but we have to reduce the time which we spend in front of television. After knowing all these harms of television we can limit ourselves and we can save our time to make more entertaining and beneficial things.


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