In today’s age of technology, the possibility for companies to place ads in our life are limitless. Advertisements can be found on the streets we walk on, the 500 feet billboards that are placed about every 5 blocks and the media we use on a daily basis. Our internet-enabled cell phones, television and computers can and has spammed us with advertisements for about the last 8 years of our lives. Every website I go to now these days is filled with 3 or more ads. It gets annoying to the point where I have to install and ad-blocker to block all these stupid ads.
To get to the question; how does media/consumerism effect who I am as a person and how does it affect my habits? Media affects me in many ways. One way how media shapes me is how I perceive the world. When news reports comes in about killings, shootings, robberies and all this crazy stuff people do these days makes me really watch out what is going around me when I walk in the city. One may never what can happen these days. Another thing I learned from media is how gender is stereotyped in this society. Media and advertisements bring out the stereotypical woman and man. For men, media depicts these people as muscular, handsome, badass and is dressed in the most “fanciest” clothes. This makes the public believe that if a man doesn’t have most of these qualities that are considered not a “man” or just a wimpy man. This is bad because not all men can be that stereotypical man or don’t want to be. However, if they choose not to be then they will get made fun of by society, which no one wants. With women, the media also has a stereotype for them. Women are stereotyped as people who are always skinny; looks pretty, perfect figure and are just eye candy. However, for me personally, women are just more than eye candy to me. I feel women can be smarter than men and at times they can be as strong mentally and physically than guys. It somewhat sickens me that some of my girl-friends believe that they are not skinny enough, not “beautiful” enough or they have a fat (Insert body part). However, they are fine the way they are because it should matter what is on the inside and not the outside. As a society we have lost that and I believe that it is an horrible lost for us.
For shopping habits, I believe that media hasn’t effect me in what my habits are or what I buy. At most times I know what I am buying at stores. If I go to foot locker I know I need to buy a shoe, however I buy the ones that look “nice” to me and that are cheap at the same time. I never buy the ones that are the most “popular” or the newest shoes out there. I know what my habits are and nothing can really change that.
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