The evolution of the sitcom also parallels the change of television from the classic network area to the convergence era, demonstrating that when families start to get busier and parents have to take on more work, both inside and outside the domestic sphere, families have become more mobile to cope with the lack of time due to work or other obligations. The prevalence of too many obligations and a mobile household contributed to changing the function of television from an event to a distraction, whereby people watched sitcoms that closely mirrored their own lives to distract themselves from their own lives.