The Dangers of Binging

Binging is the act of watching multiple episodes of a series at once. It has become a trend and a hobby to binge watch series. From Grey’s Anatomy to Adventure Time binge watching is now easy and accessible, but has it become a problem.

Binging shows has become a big part of everyone’s lives. Some people do it as a family, with friends or alone, but staring a screen for so long has to have some effect right?

Binge watching has the obvious problem of keep people in all day. Laying on a couch or bed watching a television or laptop screen doesn’t seem like a healthy thing to do. This is usually accompanied with junk food, popcorn, chips and chocolate.

In fact it has been found that binge watching as a young adult can be link to lower brain functioning problem early on. This was in a 2015 article of Time magazine. In a study in Northern California Institute for Research and Education showed 18-30 year olds who watching more than three hours a day had the worst cognitive functioning, even before the participants were middle-aged.

But you can also binge watch on a tablet, which means you can binge watch while working out. This is something that many people do, including my mother.  

I am guilty of binge watching especially now that I am in college and we have more sight than Netflix to watch shows on.

This doesn’t just stop at television shows, watching movies all in a row is also a part of binging. My faze of watching all of Leonardo DiCaprio’s movies is part of binge, of course I did not watch these in one day.

I have also lately binge watched Prison Break and The Leftovers and have friends that have watch a whole season of Grey’s Anatomy in a week. For those who are not into Grey’s, that’s 20+ episodes.

I have seen changes in myself that might be connected to binge watching. Shorter attention span and laziness being some of the acts. I realized that I would rather binge watch a show than do homework, study or work out, but who wouldn’t. The problem lied in making myself do this work.


So binge watching can be dangerous, as too much of anything can be, but you can moderate it. Watching while working out or forcing yourself to do your homework is ways to do that. 

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