Tv and the effect it has on the family

Angel Beltran
02-10-09
English 1A
T.V, And The Effect It Has On The Family
Some people may argue that television has helped their families come together more often and it allows them to feel closer with some one when they watch it with them and some would go as far as to say that television has brought our society closer as a whole. I don’t believe that any of those statements are true and have found out that in reality television has actually isolated us from the rest of society and that no seems to notice and it is because of that I totally agree with Winn and what she has to say about television in here essay “Television: The Plug In Drug.”.
When people say that television has brought their family closer than they would be with out it they mean closer in the literal sense. They think that just because they are sitting next to some one that they are bonding and that it is just the same if they were doing other things together like playing catch or going fishing. In reality all they get from those memories is watch they were watching when they next to each other and not what they doing or talking about. I say this from personal experience because I have spent countless hours watching television with my parents when I was growing up. Now years later when I try to recount what we were talking about in front of the television I can not recall anything that they said but I can remember what were watching perfectly. This to me shows that even if families do want to have meaningful conversations with each other while they are watching television that it won’t matter because in the end all that they will remember is what was on the television when they had that conversation.
Things have gotten worse now with this generation and the effect that television has had on them and their families. Now everyone has a their own television in their rooms so they don’t even get to experience watching it with the rest of their family because they can do it from the comfort of their own rooms. Like for example in my family I have gone days with out seeing my sister because she has been in her room watching television. We would call her to come and eat with the family for dinner and she would tell us that she is not hungry or that she will eat later. I would never see her because I had school in the mornings and I had to work in the afternoons, and when I did see her it felt like she was a stranger to me. This just shows the effect that television is having on this generation because I am pretty sure that I am not the only one that has been in this situation. Things will only continue to get worse for the next generation with the introduction of watching shows online through the internet.