Entertainment industry has become a huge business in the modern world. People always seek for internet, radio, television, movies and many entertainment sources to entertain themselves. Among all the modern entertainment media, people spend the majority time in watching television. It is very true that television is one of the greatest inventions in the 20th century. It came out as a little black box in the 1950s. The TV was supposed to bring people joy and happiness originally. However, today in the modern society, that little black box tends to serve a different purpose. Because of the huge variety of programs and channels, lots of people are addicted to TV. It is not hard to find that it is tearing apart a family which the family members spend too much time on watching TV, we also see it's ruining people's health and numerous garbage programs are brainwashing people's thinking.
When television first came out, because its high prize and limited channels. Most of the families only have one TV set. Family members always join each other in the living room after dinner watching the same TV program. There will be no argument between husband and wife deciding which show to watch because there's only one channel. It doesn't hurt anybody's relationship if they spent too much time on staring the little black box. Nowadays it's totally different. Because of the growing of economy, people are wealthier than ever before. It is very typical to see there is at least one television set per household. Like before, TV is still the biggest entertainment source in the family, but what is changing is that people start to watching their own TV in their room instead of coming out and communicating to each other. What will happen if the husband spent his evening watching sports in the living room and the wife spent her time watching soap opera in her room, after they finish watching their show they go to bed.
