BOOKS I WANT TO READ

1. American Gods Neil Gaiman
2. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Prachett
3. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
4. Bossypants by Tina Fey
5. Is everyone hanging out without me? (and Other concerns) by Mindy Kaling
6. Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
7. To Kill a MockingBird by Harper Lee
8. Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
9. Saga (comic series)
10. Street Car Name Desire screenplay by Tennessee Williams

The Medium is the Massage

In the last 20 years, the internet and so many different forms of technology have been booming in the 21st century. Now we are the tip of the iceberg with VR (Virtual Reality) and it really scares me the more we advance the more we are on our computers, ironically I am typing on my computer one of the many things that have come up in the last couple years. We are at a point in the technology age where we are so dependent on it,  that it's become a part of our curriculum in schools, and in college as well and it's just going to get worse from here...

Social Media, in particular, is something that really worries, we have so many different sites for almost anything like uber, tinder, snap chat, Instagram, Pinterest, amazon, facebook, etc. All companies are so focused on making things more addicting and pleasurable to the customer/ audience. Like Snapchat for example, you can now be making silly filters that would change the shape of your face or like on facebook, they want to make users have an appealing way of connecting with friends and family over the internet. 

But there are bigger issues, like the freedom of the internet is now starting to be monitored by government's hands, but is that something that really is theirs to own? What worries me about this power is the use of persuasion, facebook is a great platform for that. Facebook has been known in the past to post an assortment of different content and they fuel it onto your page base on everything you've liked or down. They take all that history and data and filter out or in more things that would be of interest, but this can also influence your opinions of the different subject matter. The problems with the media that usually is filtered through facebook, it's not very relaible but the viewers would be to differ. People have become lazy about researching the very articles and media they watch, accurate or not, they become swayed by the information they're given and it can change their opinion on a topic quite a lot all because of social media. To break this issue, whenever I see a video like that on facebook, I try to question it and try to look for resources that back it up.

What's great about the internet and media, it's made us more connected as a whole society, it's amazing to be so much more connected with friends, family, and even businesses all because of the internet. But at the same time, it's made us more vulnerable when it comes to being exposed to content because we don't question any of the content we just assume that it's correct, but instead, it could be completely false.