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Television dominates the free-time for too many people. It can make people lazy and prevent them from socializing with others. Do you agree or disagree? Give reason for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.

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Television
 plays important role in everyone’s life. Nowadays, watching
TV
 in free
time
 becomes popular activity and due to that
people
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person
 become lazy and unsocial. In my opinion, because of the excessive use of
Television
, we become less active in our daily lives. Some people think that televisions can help to gain knowledge and because of
them we
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them, we
 can get a chance to know
different culture
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a different culture
different cultures
. According to them, children can learn many good habits by watching
TV
. They think that serials, news and sports matches are the only available option they have to spend their free
time
.
However
, I think that excessive use of
television
 makes us lazy and unsocial.
Television
 not only is the easiest electronic device to
operate but
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operate, but
also
 quite common in every house. All family members are at least spending 2 to 3 hours
on
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of
 watching
television
.
Also most
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Also, most
 of the houses have single
television
 and often they have to wait for their turn to watch their
favorite
something regarded with special favor or liking
favourite
 program. By spending too much
time
 on
television
, we are actually cutting down our valuable
time
 that we can spend with family, friends or on our hobby.
Furthermore
, Televisions do not offer us any kind of exercise and often people spend 3-4 hours in single position which makes them lazy and less active.
Also research
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Also, research
 showed that continuously watching
TV
 can harm our eyes. It can have
effect
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an effect
effects
 on joints as we do not have much movement while watching
TV
. They
also
 make people untoward and that indirectly affects their mind. I
also
 had spent much
time
 on
television
 in my teenage years and because of that I gained considerable weight at that
time
 and that made me very lazy in my routine life. In conclusion, if we use
television
 wisely, it can be the best source of
information but
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information, but
 it is
also
 true that overuse of it can make our lives more difficult and less active.

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