mass media and society

i believe mass media has made many problems for society. one is that it puts so much pressure on women to look a certian way or what to wear or how to act. it controls us as a society. yea it's the basic stuff we covered in class but it's still a strong belief of mine. but mass media could help society. there are possitive and encouraging radio and tv shows. their goal is to uplift and encourage their viewers/listeners to help to get them through the day. so mass media can either help or hurt society. overall, i would consider it a hurtfull and damaging element to our society.

fmylife.com

ok, so i tried to post a blog last week about fmylife.com entitled fmylife, but hit enter after putting the title in so it posted. as i went to edit it, my laptop decides to randomly hibernate. so i wasn't depressed or anything at all, just trying to make a blog. so here is my second attempt to do this.
its about fmylife.com. it's a site were ppl can post events that happened in their day that is really embarassing or that just suck. it happens to be a very entertaining website among my friends and myself b/c some of the stuff is really funny. others you just feel sorry for the ppl that this stuff happened to. but this got me thinking (beware, thinking doesn't happen much with me). why do american such as my friends and me find other people's problems and humiliations appealing and entertaining. america's funniest home videos have been doing this for years. youtube followed, then fmylife.com. has america become so cold hearted that we turn to others pain to enlighten my day. if something happened to me that was embarassing, i wouldn't want it to be shown so all america can see it. i thought that embarassing was doing something dumb infront of ppl. so it would make it more embarassing to do it infront of all america. o well, its still funny, no matter how you look at it i guess.

Some People Change

If you like country music at all, you know about the group Montgomery Gentry. They have a cd out entitled Some People Change. This cd put into perspective how lucky I am to have the life I have. There are a couple of typical country songs, but if you take out those 2 or 3 songs, you have a great inspirational cd. With songs like Some People Change, Lucky Man, It Takes All Kinds, and Free Ride in the Fast Lane make this cd incredible. The song Lucky Man is about all the little things in life that others migh not have and how lucky we are to have these things. Some People Change is a song about people turning there life around. A sinner is saved, a addict stops drinking and so on. This song is powerful to me b/c all we have to do is plant the seed to bring others to Christ or help turn their life around from other problems they might have. The last two songs that I mentioned helped me understand that it takes everyone to make the world the way it is and that I have to work hard for everything I do.
This cd didn't really hit me untill a couple weeks after I bought it and I went on a missions trip to Philidelphia and saw all the intercity poverty and this cd came to mind. It reminded me how lucky I am to be born into a great family and that I need to work hard with others to help those in need of help.

FRIENDS - The tv sticoms impact on my life

The former popular tv show FRIENDS has impacted my life and influenced how I think of the real world. The group of six close friends would just hang out all day, sometimes going to work, and just live life like they wanted. Everything just seemed to work out for them, giving me a false aspect on the real world and how hard it is going to be. Mind you I started watching FRIENDS at a young age, around 8 or 9. I thought that i could go to work 3 times a week and still have an awesome life and be able to support myself. The show didn't show the real struggles of life in a realistic way, even though they did try to throw in some struggles just to add to the drama of the episode. But the greatest tv show ever didn't just give me these negitive views, I learned that your good friends are always going to be there and you can always count on them. I am not saying that this show is the best show to get all your morales from, but you can learn some stuff from it and laugh a lot.