How Media Has Effected Me.


My Relationship with Media

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My relationship with media is a strained one. I often feel I can’t be five feet away from any phone, TV, or flashing adds, or whether it be social media reminding you have 20 new messages. The temptation to open them often overcomes us, procrastinating work and all other obligations. I think media is bad personally, if it would just disappear, I wouldn’t argue because I think we could all improve. Not saying that I myself don’t indulge in the media. For example, I love old movies and whenever I get the chance, I watch them, whether it’s Disney or some classic but the problem with this indulgence is all these movies promote love and one sole mate a happily ever after. So, after all these movies the only goal I see is this perfect life which was so delicately crafted in the movie to make it look real, when behind the scenes it’s nothing like that and no matter how much I tell myself it’s not realistic it always seems so tempting. The same applies with TV with perfect families with big beautiful homes and loving relatives when in relativity some families can’t afford these homes or they don’t get along so sometimes it’s not all singing and dancing.
In addition, advertisements sculpt out my daily activity. They appear on my phone, TV, radio they seem so sincere like I can trust them whoever broadcasts a crying puppy can’t be evil so I assume their good which is exactly what they want you to think of course. Buy our product we’re trustworthy they use every kind of argument method available. When I was a kid, I always thought the as seen on TV worked the women were always happy and so I would ask for them for birthdays and Christmas and much to my dismay well they didn’t. But I still can’t help but feeling sorry for animals or children who look like they’re suffering or adds with people saving them who would broadcast something if they didn’t mean it, but as I learned many do.
The final but not least important type of media I am exposed to is the news. Whenever I the news I think negatively it’s a show that tells us what’s wrong with our world. This could because I find not intriguing or because I don’t want to hear what’s wrong with the world because that leads to guilt because I haven’t been doing anything to fix it and maybe I should have. Sand maybe I could have saved that animal or human. So, I prefer to leave the room if “the news” is on. 
MY relationship with the media is strained I wish it would disappear because I believe it contributes nothing to the human race but I still myself indulge in it

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