Television and the internet.
Television and internet are the most popular and the most competitive ones. Internet gives the chance for a person to choose by himself what he wants to see, hear and do. It combined all kinds of mass media. You can read a newspaper through the internet, watch your favourite TV show, play your favourite game, listen to the radio, and even meet people. Day by day it is becoming more and more available and spread. The computer is now more valued than the TV set. But internet can't work in a proper way without television because television is the "source" for the internet. Because it contains a lot of TV shows, movies and soap operas that are done and shot by the TV channels and film studios.
It informs, entertains and educates at the same time. The only problem is to find the information you need in the internet because it contains a lot of so called "trash" information and millions of advertising banners, well, that is very much alike the television. But it's up to every person to choose what to watch, hear and read.
The most frequent users of the internet are children that are just obsessed and can't live off line. They prefer communication in the internet to the real one.
The great problem is also a great number of information it contains, and millions of students just download the information or report from the internet instead of writing it by themselves and don't study anything. Besides, a great number of violence, pornography and rudeness can be easily found without searching, which influences the psychology of the child. Television in the majority of cases has the special channels for such topics and parents are able to control what their child watches. You can't control what your child does in the internet. According to statistics 15% of all the users of the internet once a month visit the pornography sites.
Internet causes even more discussions than the television. It is so popular that can't be just good or bad, it contains the good features and the bad ones.
Internet makes it possible to communicate with your friends being far away, find your friends, just to see the rare videos and the possibilities that can't be offered by television or other kinds of mass media.
Internet allows buying on-line paying with virtual moneys or using your credit card, and the product will be delivered to you. With the help of the internet you can find your job, make easier the work. For example, e-mail saves your time and money.
The influence of it on the physical and mental health is even worse than of the television. Eyesight is the first and the most important problem connected with the health. If you look at the TV screen at a distance, then the monitor is just in front of your eyes. The pose you take when you work with the computer can cause the problems with legs, back, neck. Constant sitting in front of the computer can lead to drowse, bad self feeling, aggressive mood, obesity, high blood pressure, diseases of joints and many others. And if you relax watching TV, you have to take some efforts to enjoy the internet. To say nothing about mental health. Nervous system suffers a lot because of the constant irritation if something goes wrong. The constant watching of violence influences badly the person with unstable psyche or the child.
As a result there is still a great number of people who don't use internet, or use it only for work. The same occurs with television. A great number of cruelty makes parents keep their children away from TV sets or just don't have it at home.
It is so popular nowadays that you can hardly find a mobile phone that doesn't have the connection to it or the office that doesn't use it or just a person who has never used it.