As many people have already said, television has become very popular in the past 20-30 years. People went from hardly watching television at all, to watching TV whenever they got the chance to which, in all honesty, is both a bad and good thing. There are some benefits to watching TV if you think about it. It keeps you informed on what's happening in your city as well as around the world (that is, if you watch any news related shows). But TV of course has some very obvious downsides. TV has started to take over time that should be spent playing outside as well as spending time with family. Not to say that the whole family can't watch TV because they definitely can (my family does every Sunday, especially when the Patriots are playing), but it does tend to take time away from that.
Although television has many obvious downsides that I am well aware of, I do watch quite a bit of it when I have the chance. For example, every morning the TV is turned on while I get ready (most of the time it's either the Today show or ESPN), and it's always turned on when I get home from school (most of the time being Ellen). Ontop of that, my family's Sundays basically consist of watching TV, as well as every Monday and Tuesday night when the Voice comes on. My favorite kind of TV shows are definitely reality shows though, whether it's Keeping up with the Kardashians or the Bachelor (and yes I know that basically none of it is actually real). I'm not the only one though, many people nowadays are well aware of both the good and bad sides of television, who knows where it'll be years from now.
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