Television: Stress Buster

Television nowadays appears to be a stress buster for us but then as studies shows, it actually adds to your mental stress. Television may seem to help us get rid of our tensions but it adds burden to our brain according to studies. Yes, television has its negative effects and has sever negative impact on the minds of the watchers.

Spending too much time watching television consumes our  time than can rather be spent in other fruitful and healthy activities like exercising or reading. It also uses up our time that can be spent with our family and friends. Spending time with our loved ones is a better expenditure of time than in watching TV.

Children today watch television for long hours. They spend their evenings watching their favourite program on TV, at times they stay up late to watch films. This activity adds to their sedentary hours. Addiction to television deprives them of their time to play. They should be playing outdoors with their friends, engage in physical activities and read books rather than spending their time watching television.

According to researchers, attention deficit disorders in children are a result of watching television for long everyday. They say that watching television leads to developmental disorders, affecting that faculty of the brain which is responsible for their language skills. Children who watch more television and read less, show difficulties in paying attention or concentrating.

Nowadays, television is one of the affective media used to promote all kinds of products. Unsupervised television watching in children can lead to early exposure to things that they may not understand or may misinterpret. Television advertisements my influence the children to resort to improper measures. Commercials about fast foods, junk foods, softdrinks and others that are not good for the health are bound to leave an impact on children by watching them.  Advertisements, films and programs leaves impact and influences young minds by thoughts and behaviour.

Television is one means of recreation but its excessive use is detrimental to one’s physical and mental health. We need to strike a balance of everything in life.

Television nowadays appears to be a stress buster for us but then as studies shows, it actually adds to your mental stress. Television may seem to help us get rid of our tensions but it adds burden to our brain according to studies. Yes, television has its negative effects and has sever negative impact on the minds of the watchers.

Spending too much time watching television consumes our  time than can rather be spent in other fruitful and healthy activities like exercising or reading. It also uses up our time that can be spent with other things.

Children today watch television for long hours. They spend their evenings watching their favourite program on TV, at times they stay up late to watch films. This activity adds to their sedentary hours. Addiction to television deprives them of their time to play. They should be playing outdoors with their friends, engage in physical activities and read books rather than spending their time watching television.

According to researchers, attention deficit disorders in children are a result of watching television for long everyday. They say that watching television leads to developmental disorders, affecting that faculty of the brain which is responsible for their language skills. Children who watch more television and read less, show difficulties in paying attention or concentrating.

Nowadays, television is one of the affective media used to promote all kinds of products. Unsupervised television watching in children can lead to early exposure to things that they may not understand or may misinterpret. Television advertisements my influence the children to resort to improper measures. Commercials about fast foods, junk foods, softdrinks and others that are not good for the health are bound to leave an impact on children by watching them.  Advertisements, films and programs leaves impact and influences young minds by thoughts and behaviour.

Television is one means of recreation but its excessive use is detrimental to one’s physical and mental health. We need to strike a balance of everything in life.

Digitizing Privacy

There’s no better way to put it in this information age of ours. In our highly digitize world, it’s easy for anyone to gather information about you if you’re using some form of technology. In fact, the more you put technology as part of your life, the easier it is to gather intelligence about you.

Since 2004, Facebook has more than 600 million active users, as it is, it is the fastest-growing and biggest social networking site. Millions and millions of people log in to Facebook everyday, updating their status and checking out updates from their friends. Nowadays, if you’re not inclined to it, you might encounter the ‘information gap’ between you and your peers who are updated every now and then from social networking sites.

It’s also funny how we all know that Facebook collects data about what we do, what we eat, where we are and possibly share that information to third parties organizations without our consent, and yet we still don’t really let that bother us much. In other words, the things that we post on Facebook aren’t really erased even when we ‘delete’ them from our profile or wall; they are still somewhere in the cyberspace, perhaps available to be traded. Yet we continue to make our most personal posts, as if to repress such knowledge of privacy violation into our subconscious in a Freudian sense of things. Or maybe some of us think it’s a great idea after all, since we get information that is of interest and relevant to us, and not just random advertising junks.

Although Facebook provide us with privacy settings, such that we can configure our account to only allow our friends to view our posts, I don’t think it’s sufficient to guarantee that your data only visible by people whom you want to. Well, it can never be foolproof when we’re talking about the internet. People can still tag you in their own photos and that can be seen by their friends or strangers. Even if we make it a point to only reveal our posts to our friends on the list, there’s still and many ways for people to gather information about you. For one, they can peek into a mutual friend’s account and see what you’ve posted, they can save your photo to their desktop and they could really get to what you do except if you’re not updating your profile.

In other scenarios, we may have that “cyberstalkers”. Cyberstalking Cyberstalking doesn’t only implicates on your online life; sometimes it can very well translate to the offline world. For example the fact that some Facebook users like to ‘check in’ to places they or post their routine running routes via some mobile phone applications, they can easily be the target of stalkers. Such information, when accumulated and analyzed, is exceptionally useful for them to stalk their victims in real-life. It might happen to all of us.

In my opinion, I think we should exercise caution and not divulge too much information about ourselves, allowing our privacy gets violated and end up in unforeseen troubles. It remains a mystery how much information Facebook actually gather from us, but advertisements we see when we log in to Facebook seem strangely well-tailored to our preferences and needs. Facebook is a free service, so these advertisements are primarily where the revenues came from. It might be used against us and may cause us trouble in some point. We could say that our privacy is at stake because what we do in Facebook may be closely monitored, kept and passed on without our actual consent.