Television is apart of life: everyone around the globe with a tv watches it. Maybe they have a favorite show or two, or check the news and weather. No matter how much they watch it, 7 hours a day or 15 minutes a week, it is watched. Why? Because it's convenient, and that's what everything is about, right? Convenience? All these fast food restaurants, highways, little convenience stores; all ways to make life 'simpler'. Television is just another convenience for humans. If leaving the house is too much work, one could watch church on tv; watch other people work out; watch other people socialize, other people do anything with their lives. Television isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it can turn into one when used how most households use it: constantly. That's when it turns from a good thing to a bad thing. TV influences people like no other; when a favorite character is seen, or any character actually, wearing or doing something new, it's something that is 'needed', because television is so much like reality, we lose ourselves in it.