Media is our vice. We are all strapped to it and bombarded with it on a day to day basis. Whether we watch TV every night, update our facebook wall on our mobile phone, or visit a website. You name it media is anywhere and everywhere. We cast our lives online, rush home for a new season of Entourage or play video games all night long. We are media junkies, strapped to it like never before in our history. Media gives me a career so I’m all for it, but do we really need to be so media centric?

I’ve been to a couple different countries in my travels and I’ve never seen another country so focused on entertainment and media as much as the United States. Movie stars are the highest paid people in our culture, not doctors or scientists, which is seemingly odd. In media’s defense, when you look at your day to day life, you’ll notice how much your life revolves around entertainment. The more money that is made of people clicking an ad or paying 12 bucks for a movie, the more those overpaid stars and entertainment companies get. Don’t get me wrong here, I love technology but I think we need to take the time to disconnect more.

Put your phone down, don’t update your status today, or shut off that TV for a night and just talk to someone face to face. We so easily fall into the outlets and social easements that many companies exploit everyday, why not fight the man and un-strap yourself once in a while. Life tends to slow down a bit when you take yourself away from all of what technology and media has provided for us.

Media advertising works. They taunt you to click, explore and buy. They put ads in video games, in you iPhone apps, over your videos, and who know where else. As time progresses more and more advertisers are finding new and unique ways to advertise. Although not all are are bad and can be useful, most are misleading or obtrusive. So say fight the man, turn off your phone, get off facebook for 10 minutes and try something more basic. Plain old conversation with no bells and whistles.

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Social media sites are the shizzle. Everyone is typing away their lives on the internet. It has become commonplace to life cast all of your activities, feelings, and desires to everyone. We all have a facebook account, wait you don’t? Some of us are twitterers and some are on both or on some other social media site with a collective of people. For some reason, people just love to tell all of their friends, and enemies what they are doing, watching, or liking at the moment.

When we think about the different ways people can find out what your up to, where you are, or how your feeling… its pretty scary. If you were asked “Would you like a stalker?” what would you say? Guess its easier nowadays to become one, but if you stop tweeting for a second and step back. Think about what your saying and how your saying it. You don’t want to air all your dirty laundry to the world.

Your creating a running dialogue of your life. An online diary of everything that is you with no lock and key. Anyone that is linked to you can access all of the information on you at any given moment. So when your having a bad day and hate your boss, wait and don’t tell the world. As part of a new generation of the internet we are given a great privilege. We are documenting millions of lives in a cloud of information in our history. So make it count! When the world burns up due to global warming, do you want some alien race, millions of years in the future to read how you ate too much taco bell and was sitting on the bowl for hours? I think not.

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