Television addiction or not?

'Addiction'. Generally when we hear this word we associate it with drugs or alcohol, but we never really think about the television and how it could possibly also be an addiction.

This week in class we read and discussed an essay that talked about how television can be an addiction. In the essay they talk about how the television allows people to "take a break from reality" but in all honesty I don't think television is an addiction. In my opinion the tv is just something is just something enjoyable that you can easily be absorb by.

One of the reason's why i don't really consider television as an "addiction" is because there are such things as the internet. For me personally i use the television just more for background noise then anything, but the internet is something that you could spend hours on without any realization or any actual benefits as an outcome of hours possibly spent on the internet.

With the television sure it's hard sometimes but you can function without it, but with the internet, it's been incorporated into our lives so much, with the use of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and many other things, it has almost become impossible to function on a daily basis without one of these accounts. These sites of social media has almost replaced how we communicate face to face because everything is dome online, we talk, make plans, post what we've done that day on these sites.

In the essay the author notes how television is like an escape from reality, yes it is, but the internet can be a lot more dangerous i find then the television. It's understandable that people enjoy television, but there are so many more things that people do, less and less now a days do people actually sit and watch television, they usually are doing something else at the same time.

In conclusion, I believe that when this essay was written it made sense to have the television seen as an addiction but with today's world, it has become much more irrelevant.