Sneaky Stickers

It has recently come to my attention that books are indeed a form of media. As being an avid reader myself, I have stacks of books littering my room. Everywhere you turn, there's a book (more like books). One day I decided to add to my never ending piles of books and took a trip to the bookstore. I hunted through the store until I was satisfied with the books I had, only to notice a sticker on one of my beautiful covers.

A sticker. It was covering a portion of the beautiful artwork on the cover. Now, what was the importance of this sticker that gave it the right to graffiti the cover? A movie. It was advertising the film adaptation of the book. Now, don't get me wrong. I love the movies and seeing the books come to life, but the publishers couldn't have placed their advertisement somewhere else?

This evil sticker, did in fact, make me want to buy the book.

I went back home, forgetting about the sticker incident and went along happily reading my books. Only until after I finished my new books, I started searching my piles for something to reread. Then long and behold, I find the perfect book to reread. My eyes graze the cover only to find another sticker! This time rather than promoting a movie, it promoted the next book in the series.

You might begin to think I'm crazy, but trust me, I'm not. I just like my books to be beautiful and clean. So the next step after finding this sticker, was to search my piles of books to find even more evil stickers. I came across many stickers, all promoting something different. Stickers such as "exclusive pictures inside," and "includes excerpt of the next novel," all stuck to my books.

Do you feel the evilness? I sure do.

The scary part was that I hadn't even known those stickers were there most of my life, until I started taking Critical Thinking. These evil stickers have been stealthily sneaking into my life and bombarding me with ads that I wasn't even aware of. I do hope you take this blog post under your consideration, as I would hate to see you getting as upset as I did over the evil stickers. Now, please excuse me, as I must take the stickers off of all my books before I actually do go crazy. Happy reading and beware of the stickers!

The Beeps and the Buzzes

I live a fairly simplistic life. I preform mundane tasks which are preformed by millions of others around the world and wake up to the familiar sound that has implanted itself into our society. That sound is the buzz of technology. The constant beepings and buzzings that we hear on a daily basis. I can't pinpoint the exact moment of when I became aware of these sounds, but it was around the time of when I was in middle school. The time when smartphones and apps came into our lives. For me, the world of media surrounded me with slow steps. First, I succumbed to the games that I could never complete, yet kept playing. Next, was my obsession with reading and the countless worlds the books brought me (Yes. I do, in fact, love reading). Then, came along music and T.V. shows. As of today, I still play the frustrating games, read my fantastic books, listen to music and enjoy watching my shows. I would consider my relationship with media to be somewhat more private than others. Not in a sense that I'm living a secret, technological life, but in a sense that I don't plaster my daily life all across the internet. I prefer to keep more to myself. I know, I know. I'm a teenage girl living in California and surrounded by a society where people base your coolness on the amount of followers you have, yet I don't have an Instagram or Twitter. If that makes me a loser, then so be it. Well, now you know my life's relationship with the world of media and as this is my first blog post, I would say that it went rather well. Hopefully.