One of my observations about media is that media isn't just a self informed outlet for general or guided knowledge, it has become a mass outlet for anything with a trending buzzword. People (as a whole) no longer look up minute nuances for themselves, everyone reads into what their friends are complaining about online and take that sole source as factual. I can't remember the last time i heard the word “media” outside of school that wasn't social media. I’ve found that I can't send friends links to articles or something, without it having to have hundreds of shares or likes for that friend to be interested enough to read the whole article.
I feel that this shift in the way people share information with each other is a generation thing. We’ve shut out world issues, politics, etc because we have become too focused on having fun and justifying everything we do online. It's beautiful, yet disastrous. It’s almost poetic that this generation is so self involved in itself that it's stayed out of touch with global issues that don't get a “top 10 things only millennials understand” buzzfeed article. Assuming this social media demographic doesn’t shift, I feel that this generation will stay out of touch with real issues until someone makes the article “10 things millennials did that screwed up the planet for everyone else”.
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