Use your imagination: what are some ways life and society would be different if television for home use had never been invented?

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For starters, nobody would know which way to point the furniture.

Board Games and Bridge Clubs

Kids wouldn‘t have had anything to do on Satuday mornings in the 80’s while eating their frosted flakes.

We would gather around the radio ... People would use their imagination to picture the "scene" of radio shows.

More people would go to the movies ... since we wouldn't be able to wait to view them at home.
Drive-in theaters would still exist.

No home computers.

We would still be taking walks after dinner, reading books,  and playing board games.  What a nice thought!

Little need to use imagination for this one -
how people lived before television is accessible via the novels of those times.

My Mum grew up in a small country town in that era.
She said people made their own entertainments.
Conversation was an important social skill, at its best almost an art form.
People loved practical jokes, dares and pranks - an example, my grandfather was dared to strip naked and ride a donkeys backwards down the centre of Collins St (CBD) in the city of Melbourne (Australia). He accepted. Everyone went along to see it, laughed and had a great old time. No one arrested him for indecency, and it never made the newspapers - a sign that in those days no one minded a good prank or dare.
People went out a lot to parties at each other's places,
to theatre, dance and live music.
Far more people participated in tennis, horse riding and other sports.
Most people had some kind of hobby, craft or interest.
People read the newspaper from cover to cover most days.
People read books, wrote letter and kept diaries.

Nobody would have heard of boxed breakfast cereals.