Me and Ms. Media: My Current Relationship with Media

    

    To asses my current relationship with media, in all its forms, I must look back to the beginning of my "media footprint" and see where I could have gone wrong. Media does control many moments of my day and I often find myself casually checking Instagram or Snapchat to see if people have reached out to me when in reality I can often speak drectly to them. The idea that we must have a prescence on social media to actually "exist" is rather obsurd and it is the main reason that my posts on Instagram and Snapchat are very infrequent. I tend only to post images or videos on Instagram if I feel it expresses my taste for adventure and my love for the outdoors.

    News, especially the last year or so, has been controling my perseption of the world as news tends to focus on the negatives. Since the Trump regime began there has been a major focus on negtive ocurances. Granted most of his actions have been negative and even slightly reckless. The usefulness of being allerted via iPhone on any new information is actually rather useful and I have found that I am tending to read physical newspapers and being drawn more towards online articles that tend to leave out certain aspects of events to deliver a more concise statement. 

    As our class has progressed, I have already noticed many occurances where forms of media seem to take over how I see the world and hopefull by the end of the school year I will have learned how to deal with these issues in a manner that requires the mindset of a critical thinker. I truly believe that I can go without social media platrforms such as Snapchat and Instagram for the rest of my life mainly because of my minimal legacy I have left on media. I chose to believe that social media should become obsolete but sadly this will most likely never happen due to the fact that the emerging purpose of having social media is to create an abstract identity that is different from your concreste one that people can not always see. Media allowes the cowards to be brave, the artist to express, and the world to be seen from a perspecting that is not your own.