Impact of the Media

        This week, we focused greatly on the impact that media has on our lives since the second we are born. I found it very interesting how the baby educational videos such as "baby Eisenstein  can actually cause your child to grow up with the inability to focus on one thing, just as the TV program jumps from one thing to another. Children are immersed into this world of advertisements without even knowing it. Teens compare themselves with the celebrates they see on TV, when in reality, those celebrates are photo shopped and are depicted as "flawless", which is impossible. Children and teens today are striving for the "perfection" that is, in reality, unreal. These individuals teens are striving for focus on the idea that weight and appearance are the main thing that make you beautiful  and teens think that if someone can do it, so can they, and this leads to eating disorders and other issues for a goal that is in reality unrealistic. The new development of such great technology is seen as amazing and as a way to broaden socialization, but in reality, it makes this country a lonely place. We are so glued to our televisions that we forget what a real and realistic relationship is. In my life, one of my close friends growing up loved to play basketball. To me, always seeing girls our age playing with barbies and dolls on advertisements, I thought that we automatically had this want and need to do so as well. Seeing her not have any interests in these sort of things, at first confused me, but I was able to grow out of the stereotypical idea of what each gender is supposed to do what, and see that advertisements do not determine what your interests are, but it is getting very hard to ignore each year that technology grows and finds new ways to subliminally plant these products in today's youth.