Wednesday 15 January 2014

The Media and Me

                                    
How do you use the media? What is its importance to you? Its purposes? How are teenagers portrayed in the media?


I use the media for a variety of things such as watching television series, movies, talking to my friends/family, playing games, homework and many other things. The media is very important to me because I use the media everyday for majority of my day. I use it for talking to my friends, research, watching movies and shows, listening to music and online shopping. For me, without media life would be very hard because media has made a lot of things easier for us such as research for school. We can find a wide range of things with just the click of a button.



The media has many purposes in someone’s life because media is the most popular form of communication nowadays; it gives us the news and tells us what is going on around us and around the world, to deliver information about something, online shopping and advertising but media also comes with it’s downsides such as spreading false information. Teenagers are portrayed in the media as materialistic, popular, pretty, naïve, dramatic and sometimes infatuated. Even though these elements can be true sometimes, most of the time a typical teenager’s life isn’t like this. Hardly ever does the media show teenagers doing their work and having a social life. Most of the time it’s just about the teenager’s social life and the teenager having fun while in reality we have to balance school work and our social life. Also, the media does not show some of the challenges we teenagers face and sometimes the media causes our challenges.

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