Apart from the physiological effects, TV also causes psychological effects. One is a result of
being exposed to violence. After seeing so many violent scenes on TV, people start
considering violent actions normal and they lose their sensitivity to their environment. Partly
connected to this effect, the interpersonal communication among people decreases. Being
insensitive to the suffering of other people causes people to become alienated. Also, after
coming home from work people seek to relax in front of the TV, and generally people prefer
watching TV to talking to each other. This issue is very important since lack of interpersonal
relationships mostly end with divorces.
Shortly, inventions are meant to be beneficial for human beings, if we know how to benefit
from them. TV is one of such inventions that need to be used for the right purpose only –
being educated and entertained for a reasonable (according to age) period of time. We may,
then, be safe from or at least reduce the adverse physiological and psychological effects of
watching too much TV.