Every time we have a family meeting, my parents talk about how wonderful the day was when they watched television for the first time; it was in the 60’s. We live in a small town, so in that time just one person could afford to buy one. He was the owner of an electronic shop and every afternoon most of the people of our town gathered outside the shop to watch television. Those blurry black and white pictures were all the family and neighbors needed to share to have a good time together. Nowadays, television has evolved since its inception in the early part of the twentieth century; from three or four channels, now we have thousands of channels of amazing full color high-definition picture with life-like depth and realism, and it’s almost impossible to find a house that doesn’t have a television.
Today, television plays a significant role in people’s everyday lives; it has been the most effective means of communication in our world throughout the years. People´s life completely changed when television appeared, the endless amount of information that enters into our minds everyday is now shaping our globalized culture. We can watch movies, sports, any kind of entertaining show, news around the world, listen to music, learn about science, history, technology, cooking, medicine, different cultures, and know what is new, all this is available at our fingertips and for many people television also works as a good company when they are alone.
Television has played an important role in entertain and inform our lives, but we can’t try hide the other side of the coin, don’t you think that we have been told for many years, what to buy, say, dress, drink, eat, think and look like throughout publicity in television, which uses beautiful people to seduce us and tell us that that’s the product that we should buy to look like them. It has created stereotypes and shape the roles of men and women in society, showing men as a seducer and women as an object of beauty. Unconsciously, we have been induce to consume and to try to reach what others have and how they look like. Don't you think that we have been giving TV too great an influence in our lives?
