There are so many things calling you toward that computer or TV. You forget, we're a family. We're all supposed to spend time together and talk.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Television is an important part of how we communicate.
I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
Television is a thing that people get very familiar with. They want to hear your voice in their head.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.
I think, with TV, you create kind of a family to work with.
At the end of the day, a television, a computer, or a smart phone is just a device through which one can access content. The content itself is what matters, not the device.
I don't watch TV. I don't use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.
This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the Internet, the world is at their fingertips via their smart phone. They find the idea of watching TV programmes at a time to suit the broadcaster quaint and old-fashioned.
Watching TV is companionable: you share an experience, you can comment on the action here and there for a bit of conversation... it's a way of showing someone that you want his or her company and engaging in a low-key, pleasant, undemanding way.
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