For your TV viewing pleasure

Why do I watch TV? This is an interesting question that I have never given much thought to. To me it is simply a habit. When I have free time (as if) I'll watch TV, but its also a way for me to relax after either a long day at school or simply after running around on the weekends. At night after my parents are done working and after dinner and if there are no late night practices or other activities, as a family, we will sit down and watch TV. Sometimes movies if we have time but usually just an episode of our latest favorite show. However, my family is slightly unconventional in the fact that yes we do have cable, but we can not schedule our lives around show times on TV. Therefore, we watch everything on either hulu.com or netflix.
I like a wide variety of TV shows. But there are only a few shows that I watch week to week and those would be Glee (MY FAVORITE), Desperate Housewives, Bones, Hell's Kitchen, and America's Got Talent. Of course there are other shows that I watch, but those are the ones I watch every week on hulu. There are few shows that I dislike though. I do like some game shows, but others can get annoying. I also dislike long unnecessarily drawn out shows such as the whole Secret Life of the American Teenager thing. That has just lasted FAR too long.
After contemplating my TV watching habits I have seen a pattern. I watch TV because it is entertaining and convenient. Almost every show I would ever want to watch is at my finger tips. Either through cable, Hulu, or Netflix it is all right there. I may need to do a little searching but then it is hours and hours of episodes ready to be watched. It easy to throw on an episode of something while doing homework and also at night when my family is relaxing from a long day it is nice to sit together and be entertained my one of our favorite shows.
However, TV also has its negative impacts. It has almost become hard to sit in a silent room without TV or at least music. I've become ancy in silence I believe that to be a downfall of my generation. Admittedly I do like my silence but I also need a little bit of noise whether it is TV or music when I'm doing anything.