Television: the Plug-in Drug.(1977 revised 2002)"50 essays pg. 438"

Marie Winn talks about how family ties are growing weaker because of television sets. When television sets first came out.  An average of only one television set were in a household because television were expensive. When 2000 came around a household had two or more television sets. This made family time different from when television first came out. Couple of the reasons is the dad comes home and wants to have a relaxing dinner with his wife so they send the kids to watch television. Television changed the quality of life. For example an only child at school is excluding herself from making friends and group activities. The teacher asks the mother why is she like this? The mother replies “when the busy day comes to an end she watches television while I make dinner.” The teacher replies “well why won’t she help you make dinner so you guys can connect? The mother replies, “well she will miss her television program.” When did a television program become more important than family time? Television also changed family rituals. A young woman was telling about her family’s get together before television came out. The children were playing and the parents were mingling. Than after television came out everyone gathered around the set and there was no longer the connection like it once was. Television also breaks the connection between real people. It is much more easier to have a one sided connection with a person in the television than a person in real life. Because the person in the television doesn’t have feedback compared to a real person.

Being in front of the television set all day is not a good habit to get into. Watching television all day results in procrastination of doing what needs to get done.  There are a couple factors that are going on while watching television. Some could be on a social media account while watching television. This relates to my topic of social media and procrastination because people no longer watch videos on television they watch it over the Internet and have comments on them that everyone can see.