Like many teens today, I have a Facebook. I mainly use it to upload pictures for vacations and such. But whenever I log on, I am always appalled by some of the things that are on my feed.
My feed is flooded with ads and MTV articles/videos. I will admit that occasionally there will be an article or video that catches my attention and then I end up wasting the next five minutes of my already short life.
On Facebook you can see that there is actually a quiz that will tell me what kind of cupcake I am, 13 ways to deal with hot and sweaty thighs this summer, what it would be like if men had periods, and even a list of 9 things your cats butt-hole has
definitely touched. I also found this picture below, but I found it amusing so I'm not going to complain.
Anyways, is any of this, any, vital information? Something that I should even remotely care about? Probably not. So then why is it 80% of posts on Facebook.
Today, we live in a society where we care more about a sweaty thighs and cats butt-holes than real news that actually has an effect on your life. The media continues to distract people and push them away from the real world.
People are more worried about posting a new selfie on Instagram and tweeting about a totally crazy thing that happened to them today, than reading the newspaper or watching the news. Many people don't even have cable today so you know that they are just watching Netflix and not staying in touch with the outside world. And they are able to do the successfully because pretty much the only new you'll read online is about Kim Kardashians newest pair of shoes or two Siamese cats that apparently kept meowing in Holland's embassy in Moscow.
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