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After getting deep in the novel Feed I am almost 100% sure we all see the what the feed is actually doing to them. It was chewing their brains up piece by piece because of this crave for technology. Since the the beginning of the book, the feed was forced upon the posse. Showed them a couple of tricks and opportunities and eventually turned them into “Feed heads”. “Titus and his friends are now back on Earth with working feeds, which means everything's back to normal. Titus hangs out on the feed,chatting with friends and watching feedcasts, and driving around the suburbs in his parents' upcar, checking out how normal things are.” The feeds have become an essential part of their everyday life. You can almost consider us similar if not the same. We have twitter, snapchat, instagram and every other social media apps there are. We can be so attached to our phones that we completely forget about our surroundings. Walk into buildings, poles, doors and anything else standi...

At the moment, I’m currently reading a passage written by M.T. Anderson titled Feed. I have read up to page 195 and it has been a pretty decent read.  Up to this point this story has been about a teenage boy named Titus and his friends, who live in a futuristic world where they have this thing called the Feed basically built into all of their brains. The Feed is . The Feed is controlled by different corporations so there’s an endless variety of ads popping up showing products based off of past purchases and emotions. The Feed also allows people to chat with one another without talking, and gives suggestions of what to say. Although this makes it easier to communicate, since people were born with the technology they lack some language skills and vocabulary. In my eye’s this was just a small flaw that came with the advantages of in mind communication.             Any who, further into the reading Titus and posse decided to...

Yes, you.  Like most people with internet access, you've probably been building multiple social media profiles for the past several years. An account that logs all the pages and posts that you "like," who your friends are, and what your interests are. Companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Instagram, and others of the sort, collect your personal information, and sell that information to advertising companies. It's been that way for years and it is only going to get worse. That sounds illegal, right? It isn't though. In no way is it an invasion of your privacy. No company is peering through your bedroom window to see what you do. You tell them what you're doing, every time you log on and post something. It's because it is your own voluntary decision to post on these social media sites, that these companies assume consent and sell your information. In the fine print of the privacy policy on each social media outlet, it states that whatever yo...

“My favorite part about watching YouTube videos is getting interrupted by ads, especially the ones you can’t skip” said no one ever! It’s ridiculous how surrounded we are by advertisements. And although we complain about it, it’s something that, half the time, many of us do not actually even notice, as we have grown up with it. I mean think about it, everywhere we look there’s some sort of logo or some company trying to sell us something. Whether we are trying to watch something on TV or we are walking through a city, advertisements are everywhere. And this is something no one, at least living in the U.S., can deny. We all know the slogans for restaurants and jingles for car insurances and products. If you think you don't, click here to prove you wrong. Woah, is this an ad? It’s inevitable. In the book, Feed by M. T. Anderson, our annoying commercialization is taken to a whole other level. The people of this book have what’s called the feed installed into their brains...

Two weeks ago on the blog, I talked about internet privacy and how that was one of my main objections to the Feed, in the novel Feed . This week I want to talk about another objection I had with the Feed. This objection is that the Feed is consistently making the culture in their society consumeristic. A consumeristic society is usually created when there's an abundance of advertisements. I’m sure that most of you know what an advert is. But for the few of you that live on some other planet, I’ll explain. Advertisements are images, film, or audio that pushes a message to people. Usually, adverts are used to sell products but occasionally adverts are used to push a message. Now that the Martians are caught up, back to consumerism and advertising. When it comes to advertising there is a problem. Adverts are great at building brand awareness and pushing great messages. Like the old Smokey the bear adverts, the sentiment in this kind of advertisements makes the world aware of a ...

Ahh  technology. What wonders we have created throughout the time. Cars, planes, mp3 players (I'm not even sure if they still exist), and last but certainly not least, the one thing we cannot live without (or for a short period of time) is a creation from God himself, smartphones. These small computers that fit in our pockets have made our  lives extremely easier and we rely on them a lot and  I mean A LOT. How much do we rely on smartphones? Well I totally did not write  this blog this morning on my phone I did was not able to get them :( These are not hoverboards! Even with technology advancing rapidly, there are still some things we thought would exist by now but don't. Take  Back To The Future II  for an example. The protagonist travelled to the year 2015 and it was futuristic AF! They had all sorts of cool stuff like hoverboards, flying cars, and my personal favorite, air mags ( self-lacing  sneakers, how dope is that !). The only...