I love watching TV. Sometimes I play computer games. Whenever possible, I go to social networks. But I realize that in my life all these entertainments occupy their own small niche, without interfering with my “reality” - that is, my responsibilities, relationships with my family, pleasure from work, meetings with friends and other pleasures of life. I am writing this article for those who are concerned about their loved ones’ excessive enthusiasm for playing computer games, communicating via the Internet, or spending a lot of time with a TV remote control in their hands. Of course, most often, children and teenagers get carried away with this, although many adults also forget about everything, spending hours in front of the TV. Have you ever noticed what happens to your feelings and thoughts when you watch a movie that you like or a program that doesn’t leave you? Are you indifferent (and by “indifference” I mean both the fact that it gives pleasure and the fact that the program can be very annoying)? While playing most computer games and being engrossed in television films and cartoons, a person usually experiences emotional stress , concentration of attention, not related to the fact that he needs to do something with his life. In a film or program, a reality is created in which we seem to be placed - not with our bodies, but with our thoughts and feelings. We live in a reality where we do not have to make decisions ourselves and bear responsibility for them, or face the consequences of our decisions and choices. In it we feel wise and successful and can easily observe people on the screen from a top-down position: every fan in this reality plays better than the players of the national football team, every woman is better at “building relationships” than the participants in the “Home” program -2 "... Here the deficit of emotions is filled: we can cry and get angry without consequences for our real reality, experience a palette of feelings that we lack in living relationships. This time a person is, as it were, turned off from everyday life, from which we want to escape: after all there are difficulties in it that are much more upsetting and cause other unpleasant emotions. There are many tasks and questions in life that often seem insoluble. TV and computers are very good at helping to divert attention (and the attention not only of his vision and hearing, but also of his emotions and feelings) from how a person lives and from what problems he has at the present time. In adolescence, when a person finds it difficult to cope with what is happening inside him (hormonal explosions and emotional instability) and still has to somehow build relationships with the outside world in a new way, the desire to escape is very strong. Moreover, computer games are very attractive: passed a difficult level - you are the winner! It's nice to feel like this, isn't it? At the same time, a person receives such a reward (high self-esteem) for completing a task (game) in a very short time. How much effort and time do you need to spend to feel like a successful person at school (as well as an adult at work)? I assume that you know this from your own experience... And it is so tempting to feel cool and cool many times over in just a few minutes (or hours)! And then emotional and physical stress is replaced by satisfaction, relaxation and joy. Moreover, when in everyday life it’s not very possible to feel that you are doing something great... And you get a decent amount of criticism, since the demand has increased - “You’re not a child anymore!” Social networks create the illusion of real communication, in which a person is more “safe” than in reality. Here, for example, everyone can express their opinion (give a rating), while they may not even read the response to their statement. Or he may read it and decide to ignore it and immediately switch to communicating with another interlocutor with whom it is easier to communicate. In reality it would be more difficult to do... Here life seems to be.