Medios, libros y películas: opinión sobre el entretenimiento y la tecnología

Hello Professor, I hope you are very well. Today I will give you my opinion regarding books, films and media.

Media and Social Media

I’ll start by talking about the media, emphasizing social media. I think that these have become an almost essential habit in society and mainly among young people, because they allow us to communicate with other people. In addition, they also help us stay informed about news and information on a global level that we would not be so easily aware of otherwise.

They are also a way to distract us. However, not all of them are as good as we make them out to be, because they can end up enslaving us and even lead us to act like zombies. All of this is very evident when children no longer go out to play in the park, preferring to stay watching videos on their tablet, or at Christmas dinners that are no longer shared as before because everyone is looking at their social networks, and so on. These basic but enriching behaviors are ones we have eventually let die.

Books

Now, I think books help us a lot, as they give us information on any subject. They also help us with our lexicon and vocabulary. Besides that, fantasy books lead us to imagine wonderful things that we perhaps would not imagine naturally, and they help us strengthen one of the most important muscles we have: the brain. Definitely, this is an amazing habit. We must bear in mind that books have always existed, for about 2,000 years, and yet there are those who still love them and prefer them over any other form of entertainment.

Movies

Finally, we have one of the most common habits in society: watching movies. For this we usually go to the cinema or to applications like Netflix or free ones such as Pelis Plus. There we will find a lot of entertainment content, in a perhaps more concrete or reduced way compared to books.

The Past and Drive-in Cinemas

In the past, when these platforms did not exist, this form of entertainment took place at the drive-in cinema, which in its time was a success, and some people dream of living such an experience one day. Although I read a news story that said that during these pandemic days it might be possible to resume this type of entertainment, which is unquestionably wonderful.

Conclusion

To conclude all these ideas, technology has taken care of robbing us of much of reality, and all of us have allowed it.