My Relationship With Media

My relationship with media is pretty prominent in my life, and has been that way ever since I was born. I was born while my mom was at work at Apple Computers. I grew up with both parents working there, too. So I guess you could say technology has always been pretty prominent in my life. I made a Facebook at nine years old, because my mom and dad and both sisters had one and I wanted to be included, too. I didn't do much, admittedly; I posted on my family's walls with little, meaningless messages. You could say I first got interested in social media because everyone else did. Maybe I've always followed what everyone else did. But in the end, it has led me to becoming my own person.
Nowadays, the media is especially prominent in my life. I have several forms of social media, and in fact, I use it as my sole method of communication in my relationship, as my boyfriend doesn't have a phone, only internet. In another sense, the media is prominent in my life because the news is everywhere; celebrities, fashion, scandals, and everything few and far between. It kind of reminds me of the book The Hunger Games, and the Capitol in that book; they take the story of children murdering each other and they make it about the love triangles, and they place bets. It's all a form of entertainment. They also take the littlest things and blow them far out of proportion, and I definitely feel that our media does that as well. God forbid a female celebrity has a clothing malfunction or something of that sort.
If you asked me to sum up my relationship with media in one word...I think I would use the word "molding." The media has definitely played a major part in who I am today, and has molded me in that sense. In another way, the media (for everyone) kind of molds people into thinking what they want them to think. I guess I'm still trying to make up my mind on whether or not I think the media is toxic or not; or, at least, to what degree.
More to report.
-M