Our personality is under influence of:
·
Family 50 %
·
Media 30%
·
School 10%
·
Street 10%
Media plays a great role in our daily life. Modern
society makes great demands upon young people, which they are susceptible to.
The marketing forces influence young people almost from birth and control their
lives. Teenagers are inquisitive and want to know everything
what is happening not only
in the country but all over
the world. That is
why teenagers are people who use media resources
more than others and take from
media different types of information.
Firstly, today, everyone depends on information and communication
to keep their lives moving through daily activities like work, education,
leisure activities, personal relationships, and the other stuff in which we are
involved. The media and commercials have altered our images. It influences and
manipulates on our values, demands, interests and morals. For
example, one of the most used media resources is television. Television
programs can be good or bad, aggressive or sentimental, informative or
senseless. So, the children and teenagers watching TV does not thing that the
show, which they are watching, is good or bad…They learn whatever is shown
there and behave like that, and many teens have disagreements and
misunderstandings with their parents. Of course, television has pluses too, for
example, we are in the center of actual events.
Secondly,
the results of mass media distort our perception of our bodies, minds and
spirits. According to the media, girls should be tall skinny tanned, pretty, rich
and perfect. Young women do not realize that it is an illusion. No wonder our
perception of beauty has been distorted. According to the media, boys should be
tall, dark, handsome, muscular and perfect.
Thirdly, we have been fighting against the
influence of commercials on children and teenagers minds for a long time but
modern technologies has changed the landscape and made it harder (see the
supplement No 1). Parents do not know what their children are watching or what
they are doing when staying online. It is a real fact that people
can begin spending their whole life on the internet. 65 % said that they could not stop to
play internet games. Children use the media since the age of two (see the
supplement No 2). When they grow up, they become more active. They set up and
use their own web sites, diaries.
According
to statistics, children start to use the internet very early:
·
4 - 5 years -15%
·
6 - 9 years – 24%
·
10 - 12 years – 33%
·
13 - 14 years – 17 %
·
15 - 16 years – 10%
In conclusion, I would like to say that not
everybody knows how to use computer properly. Nowadays, teens do not take care
of their health having spent a lot of time with computer. We live in a scary
world where young people compare themselves to unrealistic role models and are
willing to pay a lotto money in order to belong.
Supplements
Supplement No 1
Supplement No 2
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