My Relationship with Media
As someone whose connection to social media is very limited, I tend to think that I am relatively uninvolved in media because in high school it seems like social media platforms like Snapchcat and Instagram are the only relevant forms. As someone who grew up, and is continuing to grow up, with parents with the mindset that social media is a way for companies to steal my rights from me, I felt extremely isolated from my peers. Although in time I have grown to become indifferent to my lack of Instagram and my zero followers, and have stopped becoming embarrassed when people ask me my Snapchat, I still find that there is a whole world that I am not a part of, though I'm not sure I necessarily want to be a part of it anymore. However, it is important to recognize that media comes in many other forms than just the overrated social media sites that, to me at least, seem to be used as a popularity contest,...