My Saturday without mass media made me realize how much I actually used media, not only that but it made me realize the huge impact that mass media has in my life. Before this assignment I wouldn’t have admitted to say that media overrules my life.
The truth is that times have changes so much and mass media has become such a great part of everyone’s life. I remember asking my self what would actually happen if we didn’t have the satisfaction of all the sorts of media that surrounds us? Then I remember answering myself that everything would be much better, because perhaps people would have more time to socialize, and to be more active. Perhaps we would have a better, and healthier life style because instead of only being inside our houses along with the Internet, phones, and television we would probably be playing outside. Perhaps we would be able to be more productive because we would eliminate all the extra time we dedicate to mass media and put that forth to our jobs, or extracurricular activates with the exchange of better results and with an overall product.
Media in our lives has such a huge impact that even our jobs depend on media. Think about the cashiers at a fast food restaurant, or perhaps even a labor job has to depend on a type of system like that of having a bank account. The reason why I though of this was because as I continued my Saturday trying to avoid the use of mass media I found myself sitting in front a computer at an outbound center, which is were I am currently working now. Even if we tried to avoid the use of mass media I soon began to realize it was more inevitable then I though it was.
Yes perhaps we do overuse media by the overuse of useless calls, text, or unimportant web navigation, yet to some of us this to has become inevitable these actions might not be important or necessary but still some people have become slaves of the these forms of mass media. Like that desperate feeling I felt to know my cell phone had been turned of, I was not expecting any important call of any matter, and I have a house phone available for any matter of that kind but I still felt that not having my phone on would affect me to a great extent. I even remember my brother asking me
“Why do you seem so talkative and available to me…you never even pay attention to anything that I say to you.”
I responded, “What do you mean?”
“Where’s your cell phone?”
I responded again, “They turned it off.”
“Oh that’s why…I knew it wasn’t normal”
Even though I do not consider myself a media freak I do have to admit I have fallen under complete slavery to both sides of media those which are useful and inevitable like that of a job, or an important business matter, and the side of an obsession and bad habit for something rather addicting like texting or the feeling of knowing a cell phone is available to my disposing if I needed it.
