Television Watching

Abstract
The purpose of this research is to inform every individual the effects of television in the social development. In this research the researchers will define the social development so that you will understand deeper the essence of the topic. This research will lead you to the role of television in today’s society, in which you will know the factors of social development that are affected by television. The researchers will cite effects that strongly affect the social development of an individual. Some parts of the research paper where taken from the answers of the researchers’ interviewee, Dr. Imelda L. Perez, a physician. She cited informative facts that will help us to know the effects of television watching in the social development of an individual.

The research also cited the major factors affected by watching television and they also cited information that can help individuals to determine and realize if their actions pertaining to using television are affecting their social development. The research will also help the readers to avoid the negative effects of television watching. After reading this research paper, it is expected that the big impact of television will remain in the minds of the readers; therefore we are willing to conduct a different research project pertaining to the big impact of television so that the readers will understand deeper that particular topic. And also after reading this research paper the readers are also expected to think intellectually, if they are using the television in a good way.

Ledesma
Television today has a big contribution in our society. It keeps people updated to the current news and events. It also informs the people about the new products with the help of television advertisements. During election period some candidates use television commercials to promote their parties or their selves, but why do they even choose television advertisement than going personally to communities to promote their candidacy? With the help of technology; companies can produce affordable televisions, so that even the people who are living below the poverty line can afford television. Almost all the people in the world have a television set in their houses. So the researchers can say that television really invaded our lives. But what is really the impact of television to our lives? This research will clear up the minds of readers because it will define social development in a different way and how television watching affects social development.

People may think that social development is not important to their lives and they didn’t give much attention to it. They do not even know that, if social development of an individual will develop positively and properly, it can have a big help in what career they will pursue when they grew up. On the other hand, when their social development will develop pessimistically, it can cause chaos to the lives of individuals. Some people are not aware of what can television watching do to our society and how television watching can affect physically, socially and mentally our systems. It can affect physically because people tend to watch television and forget to exercise their bodies; in result to this is possible obesity or other health related diseases. (Wang, 2011) It can affect socially because some television programs can invigorate their skills in interacting and communicating with other people. It can also boost their self-confidence that can help them to mingle with other people. It can affect mentally because some contents of television programs have violent and bloody scenes that can make the television viewers in traumatized.

Today there are different kinds of television programs like, horrors, dramas, cartoons, comedies, actions and etc. These programs can really affect the social development of individuals, especially children. Children may imitate what they are watching and if they are not guided properly in watching television, they may engage in this kind of actions. There are a lot of positive and negative effects of television watching. The researchers will be stating some of it and how can it help and affect people in their living. This research will be an eye opener to the television viewers so they will know what will happen to them if they will not lessen the use of television. The significance of the study is to make the people aware of the possible effects of television watching in their social development.

Talavera
Social development is a process of transformation of social structures of society in order to fulfill its objectives. It is also about improving the well-being of every person in the community so they can reach their full talents. According to the researchers’ interviewee, Social development pertains to a process which results in the transformation of social structures to improve the capacity of an individual or even a society in order to fulfill its objectives and goals as an individual or as a group. The purpose of social development is to improve the opportunity of support systems in the community that avoids negative results.

There are a lot of factors that we can see on television that can affect social development. Some of them we don’t even know or see about. Some other factors are family’s financial status, race, gender, physical and mental health, the parents’ parenting style, the things around them and many more. The researchers stated the three most important factors that individuals may acquire while watching television that can affect the social development of an individual. The first factor is the home environment; we can see these kinds of scenes in television programs regularly, particularly in dramas or other television programs that are related to home environment and as individuals watch this kind of television programs they can use it as a guide to develop their social life. The first level of communication occurs in our home and it will be the starting point of the social development of an individual. The family members affect and shape the process of social development of an individual. (Dushi, 2012)

The second factor that we can regularly see in television programs is love and affection; almost all of the television programs have a touch of love and affection and as we watch these kinds of television programs it allows us to seek for other individuals that we can trust and love. One of the basic psychological needs of individuals are love and affection and if an Individual felt security to other people and treated him or her with love and affection, Thus, this gives him or her capability to boost his or her self-confidence and can encourage him or her to enter social relationships outside the family. (Dushi, 2012) The third factor that we can regularly see in television programs is the socio-economic status of the family; the family’s status may also affect the social development of an individual by their socio-economic status. Families that belong to higher rank of the society get to attend frequent events to mix with a large number of crowds. (Dushi, 2012) Just like the scenes in “Got to Believe,” where the family of Joaqin Manansala is a rich family and his mother wants him to develop his social life by attending different kinds of events, by these events, Joaqin develop his social development in a good way.

By watching this kind of television programs individuals may imitate and use it as a guide to develop their social skills that can help them in socializing with other people. Lastly, the television programs that contains scenes in the school; there are some television programs that has a touch of helping one another in school and some has a touch of bullying in school, if young individuals are not guided properly in watching this kind of television programs, they may develop fear in going to school and on the other hand they may love schooling because of the scenes in television that they’ve watched. School is another part of the social development of an individual, because school is the individual’s second home. In school, we get a chance to mingle and bond with different types of students, thus getting varied types of social experiences. In addition, the school hosts different programs and activities, once again
wide opportunities are open for the individual to socialize with other students.

Guidance from teachers extends their social skills. Thus the school helps tremendously in the children’s social development. (Dushi, 2012) Television can be a topic for a conversation with a friend for example, what is your favorite television show? What happened to the episode last night? What do you think what will happen next? By answering these questions they can start conversations that can help them to improve their socialization. According to Dr. Imelda Perez, the researchers’ interviewee, television is one of the most common form of communication and probably the earliest sign of advancing technology that has happened in the face of the earth, and watching television would certainly affect one’s social development depending on the amount of exposure to the social media and parental guidance that an individual obtained. Meaning, as an individual grows older and more exposed to the ideas and thoughts provided by television, the more he or she will be socially developed in such a way that his social development depends on where he or she has been exposed to.

Probably it is safe to say or even conclude that a violent young individual or an adult has grown from a hostile environment and has learned to respond to an aggressive situation from the past. As a technology item television, it has a great and magnificent impact on our society nowadays. The television impacts on local and global viewers. There are so many figures to see as to what extent the television has brought changes in the daily life of people. Television provides everyone access to news, movies, music, arts, technology and different kinds of television programs. As a knowledgeable and informant item, it is also an entertainer for the viewers that use the television. Young individuals can learn the alphabet, different colors, shapes, different kinds of figures, learn how to count numbers, learn to do simple math and learn about basic science on television. They can learn about basic science on knowledge shows, and improve their brain thinking and can improved social skills that can be used to improve their social development by learning new words by watching television. Some says watching television can be more effective in teaching young individuals than reading traditional books, publications and audiotapes.

Young individuals who start watching educational and non-violent programs at a very early age shows that they can do better on reading and math exams than those who do watch violent shows. Young individuals who watch informative and educational shows have a greater level of thinking compare to those young individuals who didn’t watch informative and educational shows. Some schools use television as a way of perfection to school learning. Teenagers can have a source of entertainment at home by watching films, dramas, concerts and music videos. Parents can keep up with news and current events on the morning and evening news. (Lala, 2012)

It can also be a source of important information like for weather warnings and national emergencies so that home viewers can be prepared and they can also tell it to other individuals for an upcoming disaster and to prevent casualties. Television can also be a source of inspiration, watching sports shows or other shows that the viewers’ wannabe will motivate them in doing such thing, and it can also be a topic when socializing with other individuals. With the help of television individuals can develop their social development properly if they use television properly and on the other hand there are also negative effects of using television that affects the social development of individuals.

Watching too much television can affect an individual’s social skills extremely in a negative way. Individuals who do not go out of their houses because of watching television will not able to boost their self confidence that can help to develop their social development. Individuals who watch violent television shows and movies are more likely to have an act out violent behavior in real life and may lead to violent tendencies. Studies show that violent Individual has become this way because of violent television acts. Individuals have gotten into fights and stabbed other children because they were acting out what they saw on the television. This thing can be very bad because some young individuals do not understand that some things on the television are not real.

Individuals who have developed poor social skills in their younger years will have a harder time in their adulthood years especially when working. (Angel, 2010) Television watching can lead to having spending less hours with friends. This is because either the person is letting himself to be isolated from others and from different kinds of social activities. This can lead a person to become depressed, angry and acting out. A person who stays indoors most of the times watching television will be less likely to burn off energy. Most of the times, individuals who watch television have weight issues, Then at school, bullies will pick them and may not make any friends social skills will be likely less to develop. (Angel, 2010) Individuals can start watching certain programs that have social activities.

This can be controversial because if a child will not leave the house because of the television, then they are not developing social skills. Social skills must be developed outdoors on a playground, park, and streets not on a couch or sofa. Children that are more active are also more likely to become better in school because they are interacting with more people, which mean that they learn more and progressed more. (Angel, 2010) Watching the television can become a habit that leads to addiction. It is bad for an individual to develop an addiction at an early age. Individuals who develop an addiction in early stages of their life are twice as likely to develop more serious addictions later on their life. This can make an individual up for failure because they didn’t develop their social skill properly. (Angel, 2010)

Angeles
The television is a common thing, which is part of everyone’s life. It is also the medium with a great socialization effect, exceeding other forms of media that influences everyone especially the young individuals. This form of media really helps the development of society by social, political and economic messages that are taken up in the program. Television is a tool for social influence that can be used for bad and good. It can also help the people to be educated. However, it shows that television is a view of the distorted reality, in which it can probably damage and change people’s view on the real world and influence them on how they think or act. Like what we experience in the reality, it is easy to assume the realistic medium of communication through television. By watching television we see many fictional characters that can affect and distort our normal behavior. These fictional characters often depict the attitude and the life of the people in the real world. Most of the characters possess a good character which can be a good role model for the viewers, while the other characters portrays a bad character in which everyone can be influence of his bad attitude.

Television also represents the different economic status of an individual in the real world, in which many viewers rely on television shows and how they will live on their life. The great influence of television, affect the people’s view on their belief and behavior. One of the disadvantages of television as a socializer is satisfying individual social needs but does not give any social skills, or a real life practice on those skills, that helps them to socialize effectively with other people. Viewers attempt to be like their favorite fictional characters that they tend to possess the attitude of their favorite fictional character. The influence of television also affects children by spending so much time watching television shows that they can possibly consume the positive and the negative effects of it. But children are the one who really exposed to the variety of watching violence on television it changes their behavior to be more aggressive. Even the depiction of sex, has tendency to affect the teens of today’s society who is more liberated.

Violence is common to see in television, many viewers concern that this violence that they watch in television can affect the society in the real world; we see an act of brutal violence that can change human behavior. But on the other hand, television is not only enacts the violence as negative effect, but also portrays good and positive effects to the viewer. By bringing creditable characters, in which can be a good role model for everyone on the society, it can also depict the desirable feature of the admirable television character. Television can also be an instrument for education that can help to teach the lesson for everyone especially for the students. And also television is a powerful tool in which promotes and advocates a good health attitude, and help viewers to prevent the use of drugs and too much drinking. Television is truly an entertainment value that can tell the contrast between reality and fantasy, which satisfy the desires of the viewers. Today the society considered television as important, it have a great impact that influence people of the society, that is potential for good or bad effects on the viewers.

San Pedro
Conclusion
Television watching can bring many benefits if the viewers will use it properly. The viewers can learn different kinds of things by simply watching television. Actually, this kind of habit can change one’s social development. Social development is the maturing attitude or behavior of a man in his or her society. Even though watching television can help us in many ways, it still has many different effects that can easily affect our personality. Watching television is not just a habit that can entertain and can help every viewer who’s watching. It is also a big problem for the community if we let the violence from it happen in our society. The viewers must be aware that television watching can change ourselves before we notice it. It is better for everyone if they will know all things about television watching. They need to know about it to be able to find a solution on how we can prevent the violence that television watching can bring to us.

Almost all people in the world today already know how to operate a television. They know what kind of technology is it and how it can help them in different ways. Like television watching, we can easily get updated to the news about what is happening in the country. We can also easily find out what are the trending products today. Television is one of the most important technologies in our society, but we need to be aware in the negative effects of it as well. Television watching does not only bring good things to us, it can also affect our own social behavior and attitude. It can change everything if we did not care about it. There are a lot of serious effects on individual’s social lives if they are exposed so much in what is viewed on television. For example, exposure to the television shows with bad acts may increase the violence and bad attitudes in the society. We can easily find this kind of negative effect mostly in the children who are exposed in watching television.

Sometimes, children attempt to imitate what they see in television because they still do not know if it is right or wrong. They often have a difficulty in understanding the difference between what the real thing is and what is imaginary. Television programs that show monster or violence can result to having bad dreams, anxiety, and sleep problems. The elders who view violence on television might also be afraid that they will become victims, while the violent threats shown as news create more fear than violence that is clearly fictionalizes. Frighten and worry can become chronic stressors that affect an individual’s ability to learn and relate to other people. We need to pay attention in the possible effects of television watching. We should not allow the spread of harmful effects of television watching on our society. These harmful effects didn’t do anything good for the viewers; otherwise it’s ruining the life of the viewers in the present and also their lives in the future.

Even the television shows and programs for children contain also violence that we need to prevent immediately. It is the shows that contain a very small amount of violence and we did not notice it. Children who are exposed too much to the television watching can definitely forget all about their surroundings. Since television watching is a part of modern life, it will be a big challenge for us to avoid the possible negative effects from it. One thing that can help us to prevent this kind of violence is to set a time in television watching, and when the television is off, try to play indoor or outdoor games. Make yourself busy doing other things, For example, play musical instruments, read books, or do household chores. The parents can also be strict to their children regarding watching television. Instead of letting them do what they want to do in television, the parents should be strict and make limitations in using television for their children. The parents should know also what the programs are their children are watching. They need to know it to make sure that their children will never watch such as violated programs or shows. They can also choose the program that they want for their children.

They can also discuss to their children the meaning of the violence from television. They need to explain it to their children clearly for them to understand the meaning of violence and what it can do to their personality from now and for the future. It will also help them to rule their children in the right path of life. With these kinds of things, you can help your children not to be exposed in watching television and make them reliable in your house. Also they cannot learn violence from television and they will be a good and important individual in your society who knows only the good things. We can easily prevent the violence from television if we will open our minds and if we will think about what it can make to our lives. Watching television can change our personality if we are exposed in watching television as early as when we are child and we tend to make such terrible things like violence from television. We can live peaceful and well if we’re not afraid in violence from television and if it’s not happening in our society.

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