Television: The Plug-In Drug

Winn, M. (2002). Television: The Plug-In Drug. In S. Cohen, 50 Essays (pp. 438-447). Boston: Emily Berleth.

My blog is about how teenagers are distracted by social networks, and isn't helping them for the future. Before there were computers or lab tops, there was television. In the essay “Television: The Plug- in Drug,’’ Mary Winn explains that television separated the traditional bonding that families use to have before television came along. Winn states before there was television families would go out more, play games with each other, and have dinner at the table. Winn explains that the effect that television has done is separating the families by barely going out anymore as a family; children after growing up move far away from their parents because the relationship isn’t that strong, and not as much socializing because everyone’s eyes are glue to the screen. This essay relates to social networks because instead of solving the problem of having family values or the importance of family; we just made our relationships even more at a far distant because social networks, in my eyes, make you pay more attention to the computer than your family.