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1)

Thesis: Facebook is a business and it doesn’t benefit the people that are using it, only the people who are selling it.

I agree with the fact that Facebook chains people to their desks and homes. It does not allow us to communicate in a very festive way.

I also agree with the lack of creativity that Facebook has. It is not selling/making anything; it is only an outlet for relationships that happened before facebook was invented. It is replacing the world with a fake virtual world. I agree that the whole thing is just a business that isn’t selling anything.

I agree that it gives people a weird since of self confidence but I don’t agree that this is necessarily a bad thing. Promoting self confidence is a good thing and if a shy person can get on facebook and “talk” to a few people this is an improvement. It may encourage an otherwise shy person to get out into the real world and make connections because they “tested out” their connections on facebook and realized that they didn’t need to be shy anymore.

I disagree that Facebook is a “regime.” I understand that Facebook doesn’t give you much privacy, but I don’t think that Facebook is totalitarian. Facebook does not regulate what we post or say. It does not prevent you for leaving if you want to.

2)

I know that media is a big part of society today but it was really interesting to see just how big of a part that it plays written out on paper. I never really thought about how most of the stories that we hear everyday are controlled in some way through the media and the small amount of businesses that own that entire media. The article did make a really good case for media literacy. It just makes since that with media being all around us that we should try to understand it and analyze it as much as possible.

3)

1. The media presents women without pores and expects and all other women to look like them.

2. The self esteem of girls plummets when they hit adolescence, which is a phenomenon that does not happen for boys.

3. When women who are given power, it is always presented in a trivial way that. The power is always presented in some form of beauty (your power always comes from beauty).

4. Women are supposed to be “virginal and sexy” at the same time. The messages are conflicting and disturbing.

5. Sex is used to sell everything, sending the message that women need men. The industry also uses sex in a way that does not show the importance of sex. It never shows relationships and meaning.