Written Task Outline

Written Task Outline

Topic: “The true impact the media has on our lives”

Subject:  Child Obesity caused by Advertisements

Text Type: Online Newspaper Article

Audience: Educated audience; middle-class; conservative (The Guardian)

Purpose: Inform ( Realize that sometimes advertisements can also affect us in a negative way - How Advertisements are the main cause of child obesity)

Title: - 

(Child obesity due to Advertisements)

Rationale: Identify the way media affects our opinions and how advertisements can have a negative impact on us.

Technology Taking Over

Technology Taking Over

Technology is taking over. Time with our friends, family and the things which we used to do or the people we interacted with in our daily life, has decreased as the advance in technology advances. 

Without us even recognizing this we spend most of our time on social networks such as Facebook and twitter and text messaging using blackberry messenger or whatsapp.

This has not happened just to me but you have also probably noticed that maybe when you are with  group a friends you start talking less to them and more to other friends who are not present there but are one of your contacts or friends through Facebook. This could be very annoying for the people surrounding you and if not stopped could lead you to loosing your real friends with some time.

It's not late yet and we can still do something, we must make sure that we don't let the technology take over and that we take everything else more importantly than this, we must not let media impact us in a bad way by taking over of everything.

Facebook?

Facebook Bullying

Facebook, one of the biggest and most popular social networks which connects us all, has brought us many good things as well as bad. Bullying is the new thing, It's now just not in person but we now have cyberbullying which is basically the same thing but over the internet.

A 15 year old  Irish girl Phoeba Prince was a victim of cyberbullying over facebook which caused her to commit suicide 3 months later after all of this bullying started. They called her Suicide "the culmination of a nearly three-month campaign of verbally assaultive behavior and threats of physical harm." 

They say that he commited suicide because she could not stand any more bullying through the social network Facebook and text messages, it became intolerable for her and lead her to hang herself in her home.

Facebook, the social network which we must be aware of

Facebook is one of the biggest social networks that we have today, Facebook has had a great impact on most of us. We can use it to communicate with everyone no matter where they are in no more than a few seconds. As good as Facebook can be, we should always be careful with what things we share on this social network because of it's great popularity and since it could be very easy for almost anyone to access your personal information like where you live, who your friends are and could even end up knowing which school you go to that could lead to bigger consequences as we can see in the article "When the most personal secrets get outed on Facebook." 

This article shows us how we should be careful about everything we mention on there because anyone could find  way of reading your things as it happened to Taylor McCormick who was added into a group letting her dad see what she  least wanted him to know and unfortunately in less than minutes her dad found out that she was lesbian leaving her with nothing to do. Taylor and another student were "casualties of a privacy loophole on Facebook." 

"In the era of social networks like Facebook and Google Inc.'s Google+, companies that catalog people's activities for a profit routinely share, store and broadcast everyday details of people's lives. This creates a challenge for individuals navigating the personal-data economy: how to keep anything private in an era when it is difficult to predict where your information will end up." 

We have to be careful with the information we share on the internet because things could go wrong, especially when sharing information in a social network like Facebook which like in this case was not good but could have been worst because of how public your information is anyone could really use your personal information to harm you in any way they can. Facebook is a social network which we need  to be aware of.

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10000872396390444165804578008740578200224-lMyQjAxMTAyMDEwMjAxODI3Wj.html

Child Obesity Caused by Advertisements

Child Obesity is a very big problem occurring these days and as the time goes on this problem increases because of the media. 

As it appears in the graph above we can see how TV advertisements about candy and snacks,sugared cereals,sodas, soft drinks and fast foods are the most targeted for small children and teens and as the food gets healthier the percentage decreases making the unhealthy foods have the biggest percentage. The media itself has caused obesity in children of small ages because of how common it is to show unhealthy snacks in advertisements which are targeted for them and because of how easy is to convince and influence them to consume "bad" food.

The Perception of Beauty Distorted

Media has had a really big impact on our lives, one example of this is the perception of beauty. Our perception of beauty has been distorted as mentioned in the Dove evolution video. This has occurred because of the changes media has done with us.

Have you never wondered why models in advertisements are so perfect?

We think that models are what we should be like and if we are not like them we are considered ugly or fat but if we are ever able to look exactly like them we will reach perfection and what we don't take into account is that all of the models we see everyday in advertisements, posters and images which are everywhere have been changed in some way with the use of photoshop making them be what we think is perfect.

 Because of the media is is now impossible for us humans to ever be perfect, and since we do not know that what we see is most likely false we do what we think will make us look like them leading to depression which could cause anorexia or other eating disorders when trying to be skinny or it could even make someone a greater damage because of not thinking they are beautiful enough between other things. 

Media does truly have a great impact on our lives and in this case it has a very big negative impact because beauty is nothing specific, our perception of beauty could really be different for everyone and it could be anything.