The Influence Of The Modern Media On The Youth

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THE INFLUENCE OF THE MODERN MEDIA ON THE YOUTH Chicken or beef? Tea or coffee? Rap music or rock? And the hardest decision of all, Team Edward or Team Jacob?? On the surface it may seem as though these are simple choices that we can easily make without any assistance, but do we really understand the overwhelming influence that the various aspects of modern media have on us? They say the choices you make end up making you. Every single choice we make contributes to our character and our personality and impacts our values. We make choices everyday. From the simple ones like what brand of toothpaste to use to more serious and life-changing ones like say, choosing a career and when we make a choice, we want it to be the right one (well, most of us do). But often we are influenced by other parties such as friends, family and of course the media. For a long time we thought that the biggest threat to our individuality was peer pressure, but as always, the world has thrown at us a much greater evil. The media, like anything, if used responsibly, can change the world but when it isn’t, it can have dire consequences on young, impressionable people like us. If you put a frog in water and then slowly boil it, it won’t jump out because it won’t notice the gradually rising temperature. The media (TV, radio, and the internet) can also slowly kill our values – without us even realizing it, and like the frog, once we realize what’s happening we’ll already be in way too deep with no chance of hopping out of the rut we’ve stuck ourselves in. Dangerous messages come our way every day that attack our purity, our faith and independence. Messages like these come through in many mediums such as music, movies, television programs and magazines. The media has such immense power. It can spread a message worldwide and in a matter of minutes there are thousands of people following
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