My Relationship to Media in 2017
I attended around 50-75 thanksgiving dinners on Thursday evening while visiting my grandparents house. This is almost impossible you might think, how could I visit this many family gatherings from one spot? Simply by clicking through my Snapchat, I viewed all the Thanksgiving meals of my followers family from the screen of my phone. Rather than ignoring the harmless posts, it dawned on me how these people were looking at a glowing screen while their families sat as shadows in the background. My interaction with media is a love-hate relationship mostly regarding my social media accounts. I find myself glancing at posts during my free time and chat with friends from school like most students in high school. Snapchat and Instagram are easy ways to stay in the loop with things happening outside of school, which I follow. Yet, I see others taking advantage media by publicizing their entire life just to get the extra followers, ...