Imagine a world without TV...can you do it?

I could easily do it. When i was at uni this year i had no tv and went about 6 months without it i didnt miss the tv at all. As it gives you more time to do other things and also you can watch movies DVDs on your laptop.
i think people who are addicted to it waste their time.

I don't watch TV, and the kids could watch DVDs on the computer. My partner however might just jump out of a window if he had no TV. The TV is my love rival!

I have gone without TV since the digital changeover on June 11th. I only watched the evening news mostly, but even that was getting to be a bore, because of all the 'smooch festing' for Obama. The TV news isn't telling the truth of what's really going on anyway. I don't miss it at all, I listen to radio and use my computer now for news. I refuse to get satellite or cable TV, it's not worth it to me. Thanks.

I watch very little tv these days.

I think kids watch to much tv these days.

They don't know good old fashion of out door
playing is any more. Can't do what we use to
when we was kids. Times has changed so much
with all the crime and the sicko's out there.

Another thing is the computer and the computer games.
I think kids and adults would go crazy with out there
computers.

What happened to good old fun outside or playing
board games or cards? Even listening to music and
dancing like those old times out in the barn square
dancing? I feel all this is going away and tv and the
computer is taking over our lives.

Hi!
I do prefer TV news to the radio. Other than that, it's not important. If I could still listen to music, I'd be fine. In fact, as I think about it, I rarely give much attention to whatever is on TV. I'm always doing something else when it's on.

I have actually done that very thing. As you know I'm all for good health and one of the ways to get me more motivated is to unplug...from the computer and the tv. I used to watch a lot of tv when I was a young mom because there was always Sesame st and other things the kids liked and when I nursed I liked to watch it.
But as I got older I realized that the stuff out there was garbage. And I didn't want my kids exposed to too much of it. So I would shut off the tv and tell them to do something else. Sometimes it would be doing games or going out of doors and sometimes it would be crafts or reading. Whatever to pass the time during their free hours.
I learned that I loved books as much as when I was a kid and so the last few years I've become an avid reader....and so now I have to watch THAT too because I tend to be too sedentary.

Actually, because of the high prices, my fiance and i have no actual broadcast television. When we do watch TV, its dvd's that we rent of "Friends" DVDs that we own. Certain times, we even have to turn that off because it just gets too much. I think Television is a bad element to add to everyday life. My fiance and I started noticing that watching TV made us talk to each other less, and feel a little stupid at the end of the day. TV makes it so that you don't have to think, and I think that if we allow it to do that, it makes it extremely hard to live without it. I think at one point, there was a time when I relied on Television to entertain me. I also could not sleep without the TV on, and I had to watch a certain few shows before I did anything else. It becomes part of our routine, until we realize that its taking over our lives or we just become glued and dependent on TV to give us emotions or concerns.
I think it might be fine if people just had 3 favorite programs or shows that they watch, and left the television off at any other time. I think there would be a lot more room for social groups, outdoor activities and an appreciation for the outdoors if television wasn't so centered in our lives. I mean, most people furnish their living rooms based on all the furniture pointing in the direction of the television. In our society, we can make flat screen televisions, advance technology to make picture displays seem more realistic, we can record our favorite television shows and watch them later and so much more that we put time, money and effort into, but we can't go on a 5k walk to help find the cure for AIDS, or Cancer Research, or for children with disabilities. We can't plant our gardens and create our own organic produce because Deseperate Housewives is on? Most of us cannot even tell you where the nearest park is in their neighborhood because they are too involved in the current season of American Idol. Its sad, right? Ask a child what their favorite sport to play is, and I bet it would take them a lot longer to answer than what their favorite show is.
Kill your TV!!!

I haven't watched broadcast TV in over 2 years. I don't miss it in the least.

I can see most everything I want to right on my PC... and it doesn't cost me a thing... nor am I stealing it either.

We miss life by being glued to the idiot box instead of living and thinking for ourselves.

How many of us could survive on our own if it came to that... if something happened that threw our society back a couple hundred years where there were no jobs, no stores, and no one to provide for us other than what we could do for ourselves?

We have forgotten the very basics of survival, and how to live off of nature.

I have no problem being without television. Since I have so many activities I do online for business including but not limited to Yuwie and myLot just having the television set on is a waste in my home. I wind up ignoring it because I have better things to do with my time.

When I was a kid though if mom said no television, we were ready to die of boredom because it usually meant we couldn't see our friends either.

When the power goes out here, I think I am the least bored between my fiance and I. It's funny as when the power is on, I find myself to be bored although there's more to do electronically when the power's on.

I just like to sit and think a lot, and read as well, so I guess that you could say I could go a month without t.v., or even longer if I had to. I think some of the things we miss out on as coach potatoes is the beauty of nature, and also the appreciation of art, and also on another note hard work. We wouldn't have the advancements in technology we have today, if our ancestors were couch potatoes.

I don't agree with a lot of the technologies today though.