7. Finally, the most negative effect of all of these kinds of visual media might be addiction.
People often feel a strange and powerful need to watch TV, download visual material, or play a DVD even when they don’t enjoy it or have the free time for entertainment.
Addiction to a TV or computer screen is similar to drug or alcohol dependence: addicts almost never believe they are addicted.
Even so, truthful media addicts have to answer yes to many of these questions:
It makes television more real than reality, and normal living begins to seem boring.