The topic for this blog is whether
or not I think the television has a greater effect on humans than the telephone.
I think yes. By telephones though, I’m thinking of the old, less modern phones
that only have the capability of calling or maybe texting, not like the smart
phones most of the people have nowadays.
Yes I
know that the telephone has greatly impacted our society letting us more easily
communicate with each other. It has brought relationships a lot closer
probably, letting people talk to each other so easily and constantly, with
texting. The ingenious invention of the telephone has made life so much more
convenient for so many people. It makes it easy to stay in touch with people
maybe across the city, across the country, or maybe even across the world. It it’s
a device that links people together no matter the distance. The telephone was
extremely useful, and has definitely impacted human society a great deal, but
still I believe the television has as larger impact.
The
television provides us great entertainment and also convenience. For example,
if we wanted to check the weather report or something like that before, we
might have had to listen to the radio for a long time to wait until the weather
was on, or to see news we had to find and read a newspaper that might not even
be recent and updated. The television not only provides us with convenience and
ease, but also entertainment. That is probably the largest effect impact the
television has had on humans. This effect has both its good sides as well as
bad sides though. Obviously, the good side is that when people are bored they
can flick on the television and watch a show, or news, or something. A bad side
though, is that people get too interested from shows and become lazy, and stay
watching the television set for way too long. It contributes to bad health by
making them lazy, eat unhealthy snacks, bad for their eyesight, and not getting
exercise. Another way it may be bad is that it uses so much electricity. It
needs a lot of electricity, and therefore coal must be burnt to produce this
energy, which causes pollution. Pollution effects human everyday everywhere, so
that is one major indirect effect of the television. Another less thought about
thing good about the television though is that it creates a lot of jobs. It
opens up the entertainment business and gives numerous various jobs to people
from being an actor or actress, a janitor at a studio, a director, a makeup artist,
a cameraman, a manufacturer or television sets, moviemaking crews,
scriptwriters, and so much more even down to the janitor that has to clean up
after a movie shoot. It has created so many jobs and helped society out
greatly, so that is one major benefit of the television. Without the
television, the entertainment media business would be so much smaller and they
would have to rely on onstage shows, or radios. Entertainment media would
definitely not be as successful or as large as it is now because almost
everybody watches television. So man jobs are created and it’s so universal.
So I’ve
explained why I think the television has a larger impact of humans than the
telephone, although both are greatly convenient and make life a lot easier.
What you think may be different, this is just my opinion, but I have a few good
points in here that I think are very convincing… so thanks for reading!
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