Media: Good or Bad?

During the activity in class on Tuesday we discuss the affects of mass media to our society. As we discussed these different affects we also talked about whether these affects are good or bad. Personally, I think that most media would be found in the positive AND negative categories. I think that media has a huge affect on us and our lives. People tend to live there life through magazines,movies,music videos, and television shows. If you take a minute and look around society seems to be just like the days of high school. Most of us will observe the environment around us to see the what groups we want to become a part of and then change to fit in, much like what we picture in the "stereotypical highschool". Media often will tell us what to wear or how to live our lives. As we are exposed to these different types of media it often will put a picture in our minds of what our life would be like if we could have the things we wanted or looked the way we wanted. In a way this imagination that media gives us can be good or bad. I believe that it could be considered bad because many times these are a false fantasy and give us false hopes. It also pushes us to look perfect and live perfect lives. On the other hand, I think that this can be a good thing because these images could also a form of motivation for people to start a new lifestyle.