The Controversy of Television to A Family Life ( Task 4,Revision)

Television is the most popular mass media in social life. It influences many society included a family. The television can change a family’s habits and behavior. In my opinion, I agree that television is dangerous because it destroys family life and any sense of community; instead of visiting people or talking with our family we just watch television.

Television can break the relationship among the family member. Family always has time to gather in. This activity is used to share many things that will build a good communication among the family member. Since television enters the family life, this condition changes. We like spending a lot of time to watch television better than talking to others. In fact, it makes less communications to family member. As a result , the family’s relationship is wide apart. For some people, it is more enjoying having dinner while watching television than gathering in dining room. Actually dinner time is an appropriate time to talk with family members. Another case that we often struggle with family member to watch our favorite program. This is the proof that television has consumed our attention from building a good family relations.

Some people sure that television have brought a lot of benefit to family life. Television is all in one media that provide many programs in one media called TV. In their hope, one of those programs become the most favorite, so they can stay together to watch. Beside that, they think television is useful to socialize positive norm in our community.

In fact, television also can change family’s personality. It might be true that television is a media of education, but are those programs educated especially to a family?. When we talk about television, we will also talk about its programs, because it is all one packaging. Instead, the television programs have reduced our moral. For example, nowadays sinetron is more focussed to the violence scene such as slapping or kicking parents. Without our awarness, those scenes will be acted by us. We become more rude to people notably to our parents. Beside that, television causes the consumptive pattern in family life. A family is easy influenced by the commercial break whose company over promoted their product.

In conclusion, although television become our primary need, we must concerned about its impact in our family life. The television’s impact is dangerous because it destroys family life and any sense of community. It is wise way to lessen the frequency of watching television. The family ought to adjust the watching time of television. They must set the time for gathering with all of the family member to mend relations .