Almost every person has binge-watched a show. It is something that people do just to relax, or just to watch their favorite show. The term binge-watching means watching 3-5 episodes of one series in one sitting. 70% of people have confessed to binge-watching, but is it actually something that can harm you? Binge-watching is harmless because it can improve your mental health, and it can improve your romantic or social relationships with people. First off, binge-watching can improve your overall mental health. “According to psychiatrists, binge-watching releases a chemical called dopamine in the brain. Dopamine creates a feeling of pleasure. It can help people relax and relieve stress. John Mayer is a psychologist. He says, "We are all bombarded with stress from everyday living, and …show more content…
Out of 259 people, every single one said that binge-watching a show together helped their relationships by giving them common interests. By binge watching shows together, couples can become closer by sharing an interest. If you have a long distance relationship or long distance friendship, you can become closer by sharing an interest in the same show, even when you miss out on sharing friends because you live in different places (Pro/Con.org). A lot of people who are romantically or platonically involved with each other but live far away, grow farther apart, but by binge watching shows together online or on a phone call can keep the friendship or relationship strong. Binge-watching is harmless and even helpful because it strengthens your bonds with people you are romantically or platonically involved with, and it doesn’t matter if they live close by or live far away. Some say that binge-watching can hurt and lower your physical health. Though it is true that binge-watching can create health problems such as heart disease, cancer and blood clots, there are so many ways that you can stop this from
The panoply of programs a television provides allows a viewer to search for new interests and inspires them to do new things. I, for one, can attest to this, as my knowledge of baseball was limited as a child, until one day I decided to watch a broadcast of the San Francisco Giants; now I am a baseball superfan with friends from all over the country who share in this interest, and also a softball player who exercises every day. I did not become a couch potato from my experiences with television, but rather, a happier, healthier
Winn, Marie. “Television Addiction” The McGraw-Hill Reader. 8th ed. Ed. Gilbert Muller, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003. 505-507
The author claims television also destroys a human relationship. During free time instead working our difference with conversing each other, we are absorbed by imaginary world of television. Therefor we fail to interact through the real world leading to the ' distortion of real life relationship.' Television gives an escape root for people who need to be spending time on relationships with their family as well as others. Because children have ' one way relationships ' with the television, they fail to fully develop their communication and social skills. This further intensifies the decline of the family relationships.
In the world today watching television is so addictive that everything else looks unattractive. The author argues that television is not lethal as drugs and alcohol but it can have many effects such as children getting more violent and reality seem second best. Every person lives are filled with emotions including anxiety, depression, and stress so after long hard work day the best medicine is to turn the television on and not to worry about anything. For example, I usually drive from site to site to take care of business. So when I return home from work I will sit on my couch and turn the television on and flick the channel until I fall to sleep. As Marie Winn describes, "the television experience allows the participant to blot out the real world and e...
It is to the point that we have to redirect our attention with one screen to another just to spend time with family. For example in William Powers “Hamlet’s BlackBerry,” television does just this, “For us, television had always been a mostly communal experience, a way of coming together rather than pulling apart. (‘Can you please turn off your damn computer and come watch television with the rest of the family,’ the dad now cries to the teen-ager)”
As long as a balanced lifestyle is maintained, binge watching can be quite healthy. For some people, binge viewing can be a great stress reliever and provide a type of television therapy (Matrix 129). For example, stressed out students regularly rely on binge viewing to immersive themselves in another world for the pleasure of leaving their own stressful lives (Matrix 129). Binge watching provides an escape from the pressures and anxieties of everyday life, giving consumers an outlet to getaway and immerse themselves in an activity, which has dramatically less damaging consequences than other outlets that stressed out individuals use to escape, such as drugs and
The amount of opportunities we get to eat unhealthy food while watching TV is also a reason for becoming obese. Most of us like to enjoy a snack while watching our favorite TV show, which result to a horrible mixture. You could be eating a new opened bag of chips and the next thing you notice the bag is empty. This happens because we are too focused on whatever we are watching to realize
In “Television Addiction” by Marie Winn, the author suggests that TV addiction and Drug and Alcohol addiction are similar in many ways. First she explains what she considers to be a serious drug addiction, such as not feeling normal without them, the need to repeat it, ignoring other pleasurable experiences, never being satisfied, damaging one’s life and ruining relationships. Then she asks us to consider the television addiction in the same light and explains why she feels that it should be. In my experience I can see how television viewing would be considered an addiction and why Winn would too. When someone allows an activity to negatively affect their productivity, relationships and
Introduction Reed Hastings (co-founder) founded Netflix in 1997. During this time, Netflix offered DVD rentals by mail. As Netflix went public in 2002, shortly a year later their subscription reached the one million mark (Netflix Management, 2011). Recently, Netflix was recognized as one of the 50 most innovative companies, ranking number eight for “streaming itself into a $9 billion powerhouse (and crushing Blockbuster)” with 20 million subscribers (fastcompany.com, 2011). This success shows how Netflix embraced a business approach where their mission was to take the troublesome experience of everyday consumers and transform them into a business opportunity.
According to Kershaw, “the Internet 's omnipresent offers of escape from reality, affordability, accessibility and opportunity for anonymity can also lure otherwise healthy people into an addiction.” The Internet has a wide variety of information and activities available to anyone on a computer. Because the Internet is easily accessible everywhere, it is simple for anyone to spend countless hours on the computer and eventually develop an addiction. Additionally, biological factors in a human 's brain can increase the chances of a person becoming addicted. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that plays a role in the reward and pleasure center of the brain. It also helps to control emotions. Sharon Jayson explains this concept in her article, “Ever-present Devices Can Push Our Crazy Buttons.” In this article, psychiatrist Steve Daviss of the Baltimore Washington Medical Center claims, "There 's good evidence the feedback we get from technology -- the retweets and bings and pings that come out of the phone every time somebody sends us a text message -- create a reward system in the brain that gives us a little squirt of dopamine each time" (qtd. in Jayson). Therefore, every time we use technology, we want to use it more and it may become
In the argumentative essay “T.V. Addiction” by Marie Winn, Winn relates watching television to having an addiction with drugs and alcohol. The television experience allows us to escape from the real world and enter into a pleasurable and peaceful mental state. When it comes to television, Marie asks the following question: Is there a kind of television viewing that falls into the more serious category of destruction addiction? I believe there is. Why do so many people, instead of doing what they’re supposed to be doing, put everything on hold and just focus on television? I think this is because they want an escape from their problems.
When television first came on the market about fifty years ago, families had one television at the most in the household, and most families only used the television for the news or for an occasional show or two. Today, it is a rarity if you find only one television in a household. Most families have numerous televisions in their house and use it more and more for entertainment purposes. People of all ages are addicted to television. On average, people watch about thirty hours of television a week. But the people who go beyond this mark are known to society as “couch potatoes';.
To many children, TV can be appealing because they find the colorful cartoons interesting and instantly catches their attention. But, as entertaining and fun Television can be, spending too much time looking at your big fifty inch flat screen TV can eventually impact your life. It seems like if you just spend all your time sitting on the couch, you may find yourself preparing fast meals, such as a ham sandwich thrown with some potato chips on a plate or just driving to buying something from McDonald’s. But this can eventually affect your health. If we give Television too much attention it can also affect relationships with parents, siblings or a partner. It can slowly become an easy addiction to come home to, sit on the couch and spend the rest of the day watching all the shows we like. Lastly, too much Television can affect our mood which can lead to certain thinking and
One of the physiological effects of watching television in excessive amounts is eye-strain. It is true that there are specifications for watching television; television should be 5 m. away from the eye, the room should be adequately lit, television should be placed at the same height with our eyes, etc. However, these do not prevent our eyes from getting tired if we keep watching television for a long time. Another effect is obesity, which is widely observed in people who like watching television and eating snacks everyday (there is even a term “television snacks” to refer to fast food that is suitable for eating in front of the television). television is such a powerful machine that people cannot get away from it – it is addictive. Apart from the physiological effects, television also causes psychological effects. One is a result of being exposed to
Disadvantages for children to watch television would be they spend less time on physical activities and social relations with their friends. Children’s body are growing up by physical activities such as playing basketball, baseball or biking, however children who spend more time on watching television might have some difficulties on growing up. By having less time with their buddies, they can feel depressions and loneliness easily. They don’t feel comfortable with talking to their friends face to face or talking about their personal topics, because they get used to listen to the television and see the images on the tv screen. It might be difficult for them to initiate a conversation with actual people and sharing their real emotions and feeling with them.