008 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?  Television has destroyed the communication among friends and family. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion.


      Nowadays, as a product of information age, television had entered nearly every house. Having gained the unsurpassable popularity, this little box already became an indispensable part of people's day to day lives. Thus, watching television after a whole day tiring working routine seems inevitably justifiable. Personally speaking, I do not see it in that way, and what I have observed is that television has undermined the interaction between friends and family members.
        To start with, I would like to take my little experience as a illustration to support my view of this box. When I was a middle school student, I found myself desperately fall in love with watching television. Every day, the first one running home after class was me. When I got home with the panting, I opened the television and started my journey in the cartoon world. During this period of time, I hardly talk to my teachers, my friends and even my own beloved parents. People thought I was quite strange and silent. But only I know the reason----- it was because television. It really took me two months to get rid of that "idiot box". 
        Next I turn to the reasons why television has destroyed the communication among people. As we all know, while emitting the images and sound, television successfully grasps our all attention. People who are watching a sport game or soap opera might be impossible to take care about the things which are happening around them. We often can see that a wife's complaint becomes inaudible to a husband who is totally absorbed in a television program, a mother's lecture loses its influence on the child who is focusing on the cartoon. Watching television does bring you some knowledge and relaxation, but it also take up your leisure time which is becoming less and less due to the development of the economy and the furious competition.
      In the final analysis, I do believe that we should blame television for the decline of the communication between friends and family. Watching television is only justifiable under the circumstance that one also keep a sound interaction with friends and family and not spend too much of your precious leisure time sitting in front of that "idiot box".
       
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