A worth TV Program

Switching over TV channels one after one, without seeing any program fully, is common among many people.  We are also not exempted from this illness. 

Today, as usual, I was changing channels to see any “GOOD” program is being telecasted, I came across a discussion show in Sun News.  It was a re-telecast.  4 people were discussing about impact of Social networking sites, how children were trapped in this net, how to come out of this etc.  Really, I feel, it was a good program.

Main point came out of this discussion was that we, parents, should be more careful and should know about these social networking sites, pros and cons of these sites, how to use these sites, what are the controls available on these sites, how to use them and lastly it should be our responsibility to guide the young generation.  Unless otherwise we know about it, we cannot control and educate our children.

Not spending quality time with children is also one of the main reasons why children are becoming addict to this situation, it was told.  Parents are not giving options to children what they can do but now-a-days they were asked NOT to do many things.  These social network sites give space for them to do whatever they were asked not to do.

It is stated that having an account in these network sites were viewed as “status” and more the number of “Friends” you have are treated as a “SOCIAL” and “ALL KNOWN” person. The data stated in the program that in India, 8 million members were there in FB in 2011 and it grown to 80 million in 2013.  Ten times in just 2 years.

The unfortunate issue is, there are no wide spread advertisements for such programs. For a film, there will be an advt. every 10 min for a week and almost for all “Serials” and “Products” there is plenty of advertisements.  It is very rare to see such good programs in TV now-a-days and something should be there to tell and share about such programs to many people well in advance.