Media in my life

Media affects me and people in many ways.

My life is almost controlled by media. Because I am currently in a long distance relationship, I rely on social media just to talk to her. Also, I recently built a computer so I can access the internet quicker and faster. I spend most of my days watching videos on YouTube. However, I do do other stuff. I might need to have access to my phone at all times, but it doesn't stop me going out for walks. This shows that personally, while I like to be talking to my girlfriend at all times, my life isn't negatively affected by media at least too much.

However, as a whole, this sadly isn't the case. Social media addiction can be a really negative thing, getting people to stop actually being social, instead focusing on social media only, so they don't get any sleep, they just stay up all day, just focusing on their online lives. However, Facebook isn't the best thing in regards to privacy, like it gives third party companies access to your private information. This means that it can fairly easily fall into the wrong hands. Some people can be too liberal with private information, like their address etc, which can lead to people stalking them. And if you post a picture online, it's there forever, you can never take it off everywhere.

Also, Media such as the internet allows people to bully other people so much easier than they were able to before. For example, people can send hate anonamously through sites like ask.fm, which, and I talk from experience, can really affect someone. Also, it allows people to call people out if they don't like something about that person, and media allows them to Dox them, meaning spread their personal information and send hate mail to their personal adress.

However, media can also affect people in good ways. For example, it can spread awareness of many, many, good causes. For example, the ALS ice bucket challenge of last year was a very good cause, and it spread so much awareness, and it raised so much money.

Media, or new media, has also affected so many people in a good way by giving them jobs to have. For example, youtubers are affected by media in such a good way, as it gives them a chance to do what they love, and also affect people in a good way, by making them happy.

Overall, media can affect people in both good and bad ways, and they're at both extreme ends of the spectrum, because it can affect people in such a good way, however it can also easily affect people in such a bad way. It depends on the usage of the people who use it.