Television and Daily Communication

[8] Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Television has destroyed communication among friends and family. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opininion.

Many have argued that television has destroyed daily communication among friends and family because we spend most of our spare time watching TV dramas, live shows and etc., leaving no time for serious talks or thought exchange. It makes sense considering the limited time we have each day. However, the necessary communication has nothing to do with television itself. Television just gives us another possibility.

Television may provide us with topics for communications. TV dramas are usually well-designed stories, exhibiting common contradictions in our daily lives, which arouse our similar experiences we might talk about with our family. Live shows, expecially the livecast of influencing games, such as world cups, are common topics among friends. Maybe, it's argued that those topics are shallow and hollow. The fact is that all those topics are able to trigger comminication in a deeper level. The experience we encountered and the one in the drama show the different values each of us hold, which often leads to a discussion about how we might tackle the situation. By talking about games, we know each other's favors and ask for others' opinion of how to appreciate those distinguished stars, excellent games.

What's more, watching television together is a great chance of face-to-face communication. Lovers might arrange a little date simply by watching a moving story on television together; the family might share their laughter, sitting together and enjoying a talk show; friends might gather in a bar where a livecast of a soccer match is presented and they might shout for excitement.

However, the communication occurs only when we ourselves keep it in mind. The topics and chances television provides are only possibilities, and they are complementary for other topics and chances. By taking advantage of them, we will have more communication while ignoring them, on the contrary, leaves less time for communication. What we usually need to do is simply to keep in mind that we must be initiative in talking with others, steering topics to what we find in television when we have no other alternative, and remember to spend time togather watching television and talk about it if there is nothing else to do together.

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