Television, Boon or Bane?

by: Angel Claire Marie Basa

Technologies make our daily lives easy and comfortable. Do you agree that it has also a bad side? One of the products of technology is the television. Is this useful to us especially to the students like me? Well, there were different suggestions and comments that I encountered.

Television plays a big role in the community especially in the lives of the Filipinos. To gather information and news about the country or the whole world is easy through watching television. We can get complete information from this wonderful invention. People will also suddenly forget their problems by the help of dramas and shows. It makes them united especially at night because it is the time of rest. Other students can't study well without television.

For me, being a student, I appreciate this mentioned technology because it is my main source of current events that I'm going to share with my co-students in our school campus. I can easily choose the products that I am going to buy in the market because of the advertisements, but sometimes we abuse in watching TV and we can't blame our parents if they will get angry at us. They are only thinking for our better future.

On the other hand, television might be boon if we use it properly and it will become bane if we use it in a wrong way.