Watching TV or Spending long hours in front of the Computer - which is worse?

Hello Kiran, You are right computer is more harmful than TV. I read some where key board also create health problem in our hands. We know all these but we cannot leave away from computer. It is some sort of edication.

I can't say which is worse but, in our days, most of the people people are sitting in front of them. I've heard TV is bad because people, when they are watching it, don't communicate to each other. However when you're using the computer you can write, talk and watch to someone live and direct. It's possible there are few people who doesn't spend many hours a day in front of those devices. It's true that, for this reason, you don't have physical activity and maybe that's bad for your health. Would you tell me why is bad for our eyes? What have you heard about?

I think both are bad but as you have asked for a comparison between them, I would mention that watching the so called soap operas on TV for hours is worse than spending long hours in front of the computer.

it doesn't matter as long as do not buy a CRT Monitor or CRT Television....

i think tv is much worst than computer... for computer you need to be active to search what you want, you can't just sit an do nothing... but on tv we're doing a pasive job. that's why when we use our computer to surf the web it's called activity. For example is when i reply to this discussion i do an active job which is writing on my keyboard....

maybe spending long hours in front of the computer is much worse than just watching TV for long hours. That is because when you're in front of the computer, you're more focused than when watching TV. When you're sitting in front of the computer, you're actually doing something and that needs to stare at the computer screen for long hours. While in watching TV, you can actually multitask. You can eat, talk to your mother, or clean your room while watching TV which means your eyes are not too much focused on the TV screen, I think that's better. You can rest your eyes when watching TV by not just looking at the screen but on computer you can't because you're doing something with the computer.

I will have to but agree with you that spending time in front of computer could be more harmful than watching a TV programme. While watching a TV programme, we do not use our brain, we just relax and enjoy to the happenings. On the other hand, while using a PC, we need to constantly tax our mind and keep thinking. If I spend long hours in front of PC it gives me strong headache.

i believe spending too much time in front of a computer is worse than watching tv all day. the monitor, specially if its not LCD monitor contains radiation that is really affecting our sight, since using computer requires us to be near the monitor. unlike watching tv, we can watch it however far that we want it to be.

I think it depends very much upon what you're doing when you watch television or are on the computer. I don't tend to watch educational programmes, so I would say that it is bad for me to watch television; however I earn a lot of money online so I think that it is beneficial for me to spend a lot of time at my laptop because I wouldn't be able to pay the bills if it wasn't for this, it is as simple as that. I need the internet, and I will admit freely that it has totally changed my life for the better. Life would be a lot more difficult without it.

Kiran, you are right now a days most of the people spend long hours working in the computer or watching TV. The reason is that we became self centered. We don't spend our time with friends. Yes I agree Computer is more harmful for health than watching TV. It affects our eyes and brain. In the night when I work in computer for long time I can't sleep smoothly. It takes long time to close my eyes with deep sleep.

For me worse because they have bad effect on there life.

If one takes breaks in between one can manage both watching tv and working on the computer without much damage to one's health. There are eye exercises too that can take care of eye fatigue. I normally put a few drops of 'refresh tears' which is a eye moisturiser. Watching tv or working on the pc dries up one's eyes.

The same is not good for our health. Use them two hours a day so it won't harm your eyes. Sitting for a long period of time is bad for our health. Computer can give us a lot of useful information than television....although TV programs is a lot more entertaining.

I also think that spend hours in fron of the computer is worse, at least, that's what seems to be. When I pass to much time in front of the computer, my eyes start to hurt and I need to give a little break before continue. While, when I'm watching TV, I can stay for almost all day long and my eyes don't hurt at all. The bad thing is that usually I'm doing the both things at the same time! :)

I have read once in a news site it says "sitting could kill you" hahaha. I would rather say watching TV is worse specially if you watch shows that isn't intellectual and not educational. If i watch TV, it could be either news, good movies, National Geographic or Discovery, a channel that is worth your time. Have a nice day, happy TV viewing kiran8!

i believe it should be spending long hours in a computer. when watching tv, you are not really that close to the tv, there is a distance hence hence less radiation, but for computer, you need to be near to a computer so much danger is in there.