Weekend without a phone

     The weekend without my phone was a pain in the ass.  It wasn't that I needed it or was addicted to it, it was more that I had to make plans over facebook or make plans at school for the whole weekend.  I basically just slept over my friends house twice and then we went to practice.  It was just an inconvenience because I had to make plans when I usually just sit home and wait for something to happen then go out.  But this weekend i had to make plans.  Another annoying thing was that i never knew what time it was and would have to ask people what time it was because i had no idea.  Overall though, i think it was easy and i would do it for the rest of the week if it would bring my grade up more. 

School without a phone

     I lost my phone Thursday and school with it wasn't that hard.  At first I would kind of think about it, but I got used to it.  I don't really use it much at school unless I get really bored.  It was more of an inconvenience because I would never know the time unless I was around a clock.  The weekend was a little different but the school portion of this wasn't that bad and i don't really know what to say about it other then it wasn't that bad.  The only thing was that I had to call my girlfriend on my home phone was just annoying because i had to do it downstairs on the couch instead of in my room.  It was just another inconvenience. 

Wired

     I think this article makes some very good points, and shows how much children and our generation uses and relies on technology.  It is said in the article that young children spend over 10 hours a week playing video games.  I agree with this fact because i personally easily play over 10 hours of video games.  I don't see a problem with it and I'm not addicted but I am constantly hearing from my parents that i shouldn't be wasting my time playing video games.  As kids, we have grown up with technology our whole lives so it is kind of like second nature to be able to use it for some people.  For some adults though, it is confusing and new because they hadn't had it by there side their whole lives. 

     Another big part of this article was the social media aspect of it.  Social media is a big part of kids lives because it is a way to communicate with friends.  I think that cyber-bullying might be a little problem with younger kids in junior-high school if there is a problem at all, but i don't think there is much of a problem in our community with cyber-bullying.  The article also states that some children and teenagers are addicted to social media websites which i don't think is completely accurate.  Addiction is defined as the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma.  I really don't think people can actually be addicted to a website.  Maybe they are on it a lot but I don't think they are addicted.  

     One of the last parts of this article talked about the gaming addictions.  They talk a lot about addiction, but i really don't think it is addiction.  I just think it is unrealistic to play a game for an hour or less than an hour per day.  Once you get playing a game, most of the time you can't get much time done unless you play for a good amount of time.  I don't play video games a lot because i am addicted but because i think it is fun and it is something to do instead of sitting in my room and stare at my wall.  I think that the scientists studying all of these things need to play the games to see what its really like instead of analyzing and criticizing people about what they do and how much of it that they do.

Mass media

I think that advertising in this form is wrong and it shouldn't be able to happen. I think that it makes us change our opinions sometimes just because of the brand name. I think some companies are taking advertising too far when they really are thinking about how to get the attention of the audience when it doesn't involve the company at all

Effects of Media

          I think that media effects everyone whether you think it does or not.  A lot of this media is wrong and shouldn't be able to be showed.  To start with, the music video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu8pzck-beI showed how just a simple video could influence the way girls act or dance.  These are the things that teenagers are brought up watching, therefore think it is right to dance this way or act like this at such a young age.  Teenagers are brought up thinking this is okay, when really adults and parents think that it is an outrage and they shouldn't be acting this way.
          The next video was about an advertisement and it shows the steps that were taken to make the advertisement.  You can find the video at the following address.                                   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-HsfFbPYvk .  This method of advertisement is just wrong.  They show the girl in the beginning the advertisement and what she looks like and then they change her to look almost like a whole different person.  Adding the makeup is one thing, but I think after doing that, going on the computer and editing the photo from their is just wrong and they shouldn't do it to make a model look perfect.  It influences people and makes them think that they have to look like this person to be attractive or to even get attention.  This in a way promotes some of the eating disorders because people are trying to get skinnier
           Overall, advertisement of this kind and some of the things on reality T.V and just normal T.V is wrong and should be changed.  It is starting to be a big impact on society and really impacting people because they are trying to be perfect.  This is a problem because they are trying look like the people that have been edited on computers to look like they do.  It is almost impossible to look as perfect as them, because companies make sure they look like that to appeal to other people.