ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF WATCHING TELEVISION.

Watching television has its advantages and its disadvantages.Whether watching television has more advantages or disadvantages depends on the individual.

A person can gain a lot of knowledge by watching good television programmes.Children learn moral values from educational children's programmes and science from Infocsience programmes.They also learn history from feature films as well as documentary shows.The National Geographic provides information about our habitat and environment in a very interesting way.The Crocodile Hunter provides information about animals habitat and why we must to protect animals.A person gains his knowledge in the comfort of his home.Watching scientific shows stimulates the mind.For example at TV9,start from 8.00 o'clock until 12.00 o'clock,it show a lot of educational programmes to give us information about science and give us many ways to solve the mathematics questions.It helps a person to have a wider perspective of science and its potential that can be used to help mankind.Television news is a good source of information on happenings in the nation as well as the world.University students actually do not have much time to watching television because they have a lot of work to do.However,if they want to know about what happen outside there,they just to watching news at television and after that,they can continue their work.Television programmes can help University students to find some information to complete their assignments.

On the other hand,watching television can have a bad effect on the viewer too.Foul language, violent and indecent acts from the shows can have a negative effect on the viewer's behavior.Children will follow their lovely artist acts.Scary and horror movies sometimes stretch the imagination of the viewer too far.Watching too much television may result in a person being an introvert, anti-social or becoming an addict to television programmes.University student should not watching television too much because they will not doing or finishing their assignment and maybe they will not study for their examination.

Nothing is perfect.A person must learn to make the best out of watching television by being selective of what he watches.In this way, watching television is not only fun but informative too.

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