TELEVISION VS PHONES

The topic for today is whether or not I think the television has a greater effect on humans than the telephone.  I think the television had a greater effect a long time ago but now it is the phone that is dominant. 

The main reason why I think this is because many people watch television on their phone.  Phones nowadays are very advanced and can play live television almost everywhere you want.  The question, to me, is basically asking if I think television is better or television and phone is better.  Same as the question, “is 2 greater than 1?”  The answer of course is 2, or the phone.

The advantage that the television has over the phone is of course screen size.  Watching a movie with a phone and watching a movie on a television is significantly different. The visual and the sounds are so different.

Another thing that makes the telephone have a greater effect on people than the television is because a telephone can choose what to play or watch.  For a television, there is a certain time and day for everything but for the phone, we have a freedom of choice to choose what we want to do.  It is like a personal phone unlike the television is just like a connector from the broadcast center to your home. 

The telephone also has a greater effect on people because television isn’t portable.  Nowadays, people spend more time outside their house than staying at home.  Taking this fact into consideration, people have more time to play with their phone compared to the time watching TV.  More time on something means that it will have a greater effect and influence compared to something that is not used as often.

We can see that the telephone has a greater effect by looking at where society’s attention is.  There is a lot of people waiting for phones compared to people waiting for TVs.  The current rivalry between Apple and Samsung, which is a very controversial issue, deal with phones.  Society’s view is a lot more on phones than on TVs.  If television had a greater effect on people than the phone, the controversial topic should be on televisions and not on phones.

Television does not have a great effect on humans because it is just what it is, television.  People accepts what just comes on television without having an opinion or change on it.  On the other hand, phones can be modified and controlled by humans.  For example, if something comes out on television, people do not doubt what it is saying and believe what is just there.  On the other hand, if there is something on the phone that we do not like, we have the ability to change what it says.  This shows that people have a choice on what to do with phones and therefore, phones have a greater effect on humans compared to the television which is just what it is.