Folks I need to warn you about a serious phenomenon that's out there. Even the most unsuspecting xx or xy can fall victim to this danger zone. Each individual entity in it's own right has it's caveats, but when using the three together, more than just a time sync can happen. A person can LITERALLY drop off the face of the earth.
I'm here to tell you about the Bermuda Triangle of sitcoms:
Total seriousness here, who doesn't love a great sitcom? Friends, Sex and the City, the Wire, Alias, Entourage, even Buffy have all been known to cause ridiculous levels of excitement in anticipation of the next episode. Which makes having multiple episodes of great sitcoms out on DVD or available on the internet seem like a great opportunity: no commercials, and you don't have to wait for the next episode. So you feed the addiction until... Season 4 disc 3 is rented. You can't wait the 3 days until the person returns it so you sign up for Netflix, and BAM -- there it is in your mailbox when you get home the next day, as well as two additional discs. But then you watch them all in the same night, so you try and find the next episode on YouTube, or ABC.com or MTV.com. Any of the combination of the three resources can be tapped out, until you're looking for the next place to get a fix. You've got to have it.
Unfortunately the reality is that if you can't find one sitcom episode there are others, so with access to these three resources you can actually hibernate in a bubble of laughter and perfect looking people.
This takes TV addiction to another whole level. Speaking of TV addiction I found this neat spectrum chart on TurnOffYourTV.com
Phase 3: you are a full fledged addict. Heads up.
Good point Ron Kaufman. TV addiction is no joke. Especially when it is featured in Scientific American. So heads up out there.
I'm here to tell you about the Bermuda Triangle of sitcoms:
Total seriousness here, who doesn't love a great sitcom? Friends, Sex and the City, the Wire, Alias, Entourage, even Buffy have all been known to cause ridiculous levels of excitement in anticipation of the next episode. Which makes having multiple episodes of great sitcoms out on DVD or available on the internet seem like a great opportunity: no commercials, and you don't have to wait for the next episode. So you feed the addiction until... Season 4 disc 3 is rented. You can't wait the 3 days until the person returns it so you sign up for Netflix, and BAM -- there it is in your mailbox when you get home the next day, as well as two additional discs. But then you watch them all in the same night, so you try and find the next episode on YouTube, or ABC.com or MTV.com. Any of the combination of the three resources can be tapped out, until you're looking for the next place to get a fix. You've got to have it.
Unfortunately the reality is that if you can't find one sitcom episode there are others, so with access to these three resources you can actually hibernate in a bubble of laughter and perfect looking people.
This takes TV addiction to another whole level. Speaking of TV addiction I found this neat spectrum chart on TurnOffYourTV.com
Phase 3: you are a full fledged addict. Heads up.
This is someone who rejects opportunities for interpersonal or active experiences and instead chooses to watch TV. In terms of one's cognitive development, this could be viewed as a harmful mode of activity. If we consider the ACT theory, one cannot truly make sense of the world without previous experiences (nodes of thought) with which the mind can call upon. If one's previous experiences are someone else's, such as the characters portrayed on the TV screen, then what is established as real life parallels life on the TV screen. Reality TV is NOT reality. Television only mimics reality and in most cases portrays the world in wild exaggerations.
Good point Ron Kaufman. TV addiction is no joke. Especially when it is featured in Scientific American. So heads up out there.
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Ha! So you're saying it's unhealthy to schedule your social life around the amount of TV you need to watch?
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