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What is your name? - George Mathew Marantos Where were you born? -Australia How many brothers or sisters do you have? - 1 sister //- Tonia- 5 years old. How do you define a friend? // - relaible and nice and welcoming and always by your side. What does it mean to be a real friend? - To be a real friend means many things to me. A friend should be there for you in times of need. A real friend should stick by you at all times, he should give you advice when you need it the most and look after each other in all circumstances. Do you use social networking? Which? - Yes, MSN because i find it is a quick way of interacting with people and it is completley free and fast. How many friends do you have on a social networking site? 200+ __What is the difference between these friends and others?__ -nothing i see them all allot. __How many people are in your family?__ - 4
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= __//Television and the internet have destroyed time with family and friends. What do you think?//__ = Television is a luxury which most households have in Australia. New technologies are coming out everyday which allow us to interact with technology in more invasive ways. There are a lot of positives with the new technologies especially by having vast sources of information at your fingertips. In today’s vastly progressing society, technology plays a major role in what the modern human does to occupy their minds. Many companies make you pay to watch selected channels for a price. Some companies: such as: Foxtel, TiVo and select TV etc. These companies can charge you from as little as 30 dollars a month to as much as 100 dollars a month. In today’s economic downfall people are finding these companies too expensive to continue using their services. The types of people who tend to have pay tv are couples with children who need to occupy their mind and to allow parents to have some freedom. The free to air channels are now creating second or even third channels which are like pay TV but free. They are doing this for the people who are fed up having to pay money to watch special programs or even their own countries play in important sporting events. Channel 10 has created a sporting channel on channel 1, 11 or 12. Channel 9 has created GO which is channel 99, and 7 has created 70 high definition which is channel 70. All these new channels have revolutionized TV and made it so you can watch TV all day.

Due to television always changing and getting bigger, I think people are tending to spend more time at home watching their favourite shows. People are tending to go and buy a second or third TV because families are arguing on what they want to watch. If there was a family of 3 and there was three TV’s in the house hold, conversation would not even exist because all the family members would be hooked on a half hour to an hour session of TV. Studies show that families with pay TV spend up to 3 hours more than what they watched with free TV. These results are shocking and are tearing families apart. Another thing I don’t agree with is TV at dinner time. Dinner is a time of conversation and peace. Families like to talk about their day and any interesting experiences that may have occurred throughout the day. Just talking for half an hour can boost a family’s relationship considerably. Over all, it depends on the circumstances a family may have. A family who has Pay TV and 2 or 3 TV’s has a higher chance of destroying the family's communication but a family with 2 TV’s and no pay tv would function just fine.

People need to take into consideration the amount of luxuries one family can have, as shocking results may occur such as completely tearing families apart. I think technology in some ways is amazing but in other ways it is just plain old __BAD__. __By George Marantos 9GU__