Television's Effect on Teens

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Television's Effect on Teens

Today, television is getting more and more popular with the younger

generation. Many teenagers spend their spare time watching the

television. Television is bad for teenagers in numerous cases, and

this essay is going to explain why.

A great deal of teenagers in today's society goes home from school

with work to do, and as soon as they enter the door, they sit in front

of the television. This happens day after day, week after week and

year after year. Teenagers do not think of homework as practice for

exams that will do them good; they think of it more as a punishment,

or something they have to do. After a short time, examinations crop

up, and the students are not ready for them due to lack of

preparation, (or in this case, too much television). From my own

experience, I have gone home and watched television. It got me

nowhere, so I started concentrating on my work.

Together with the problem mentioned above, there is the issue over

explicit content being displayed too early in the evening. Misleading

messages encourages teenagers to act in ways in which they wouldn't

normally. For example, there is adult material being broadcasted from

9.30 now, and from 8.00, there are films including bad language,

violence. The average time for teenagers to go to bed is about 10.00

to 10.30. This leaves plenty of time to watch such material.

Despite the bad side, as you may be aware, there are channels of

intellectual content, such as the National Geographic/History Channels,

and there is the news which is on practically every channel. This is

all very well, but I do not agree that many people watch such

channels. Many teenagers watch programmes of interest to them, for

example comedy, action etc. A very small percentage watches these

intellectual programmes, (20%).

Furthermore, one of the worst factors of television is that there is

the un-motivating side. When teenagers watch too much television, they

do not exercise as regularly as they should, therefore becoming

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