Effects of Television Viewing on Young People

張貼日期：Dec 25, 2011 4:6:33 PM

Elaine Chen

Many young people like to watch TV in their free time. There are many kinds of TV programs to attract them. When they are fascinated by those TV programs, their health and mind can be affected considerably so that their daily habits become irregular.

Television viewing can bring many effects to young people. I have also been deeply affected by TV. When I was a junior high school student, I liked watching TV very much. During that time, I spent more time watching TV than reading. After school, I went home and turned on the TV to watch cartoons or ESPN. I spent most time watching many kinds of TV programs. They were shown in different times, and I watched most of them. As a result, my daily habits became irregular, and I often felt sleepy during the classes. So, my grades were not very good. Though I wanted to make them better, it was very hard to me. I was greatly affected by TV. I needed determination to change the bad situation. So, I joined the self-study activity at night in school. I persuaded myself to study. After a period of time, my grades were improved, and my daily habit became regular.

Watching too much television is unhealthy for young people. It affects their ability of learning; for example, when we try to listen carefully to what the teacher teaches, we will find that it is hard to concentrate; we even cannot understand what the teacher says. We just feel sleepy this moment, but when we go home after school, our vitality revives unconsciously. It is very common that many young people stay up because of television. I believe that many young people have such kind of experience. When we know it is time to sleep, but the TV show is on with the fascinating part, we may choose to go on watching the program. When the condition happens constantly, it means our routines are disrupted. Our metabolism will become worse, and thus we will become sick easily.

We can get a lot of knowledge from television, but we may also learn some bad behaviors from it. Maybe we are not aware of it, but we are surely affected. Television can affect our behavior very much. From TV news, we can know that some behaviors are learned by young people from television. The content of TV programs is not real, and we are so young that we can be affected easily and do the similar things. We may not be aware that our thoughts have been changed by television, and they are exhibited in our behaviors.

Television has a great effect on young people. It affects both of our health and thoughts very easily because most of us are not stable enough. Television plays an important role in our life. It can be good or bad. Whether it is good or bad depends on if we can select proper TV programs and if we can restrict our time of watching TV.