Similar to my feelings toward social media I discussed in the last blog, I have a love/hate relationship with television as well. I don't watch TV a whole lot - except during football and basketball season. From here comes my love for television. How else would I watch Kentucky football be awful every Saturday? More importantly, where else could I find the excitement of watching March Madness? Besides sports, I'm not a huge TV watcher. I haven't consistently watched a show on television since Friday Night Lights ended back in 2011. TV, like social media, is an effective tool to get a message to a whole bunch of people real fast. Whether it be political or a weather emergency, television is a great way to inform people quickly. Now, is that information passed along via the television always true? Absolutely not. But that's a different story.
However, there is no doubt that people in America watch television too much. I am thankful still that my mom never let me have a TV in my bedroom during my childhood even though I begged for one and cited all the "cool kids" whose moms let them have one. Television, like all things in life, is good in moderation. I 100% support parents who give their kids a set amount of TV time during the week. In this age of technology, we need to teach kids that it is possible to be entertained without a TV or an iPad or an iPhone or another iSomething. Go read a book or play outside.
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