Consumer !

Like.. omgoodness, OH GOSH why do people consume more than what they need !

I define consumerism as something that people consume of base on advertisement and so on. When media representations sell their products they make sure that it will make the consumer or buyer go "awe, that is so awesome I must have it." But what I seriously do not understand is that why do people tend to go for something that just spark their eye at first sight? They do not even think about it before they buy it. I cannot blame people for that, even I at time want something and just buy it but after a couple of week I would forget about that stuff that I brought. For example, a pair of shoes that I would just wear for a couple of weeks and throw them away especially if it was white and it turned dirty. I mean yeaah of course, who would want a white shoe that is dirty? I think this tie into "fitting in." In where as teens today tend to buy things in which they think others teens have so they should have it too. I believed that people are in control of their wants and needs. But when they wants what caught their eye they cannot control their needs for it. I think media, teachnology or popular culture personally affect me by catching my attention in teling me that I need that to survive. I think media teachnology can speak a lot but some of the things that they may say may not be fully the truth. I think this define American culture identity and how they define me is that the things that media tend to sell are actutally working because they have their ways to make it seem real or make it seem as if it is something people need in their life to be more satisfy. It define us as people who wants more than what we can handle. Even if we were to say we do not want something we tend to aim for it and we do not stop. The social implications of technology use, consumerism, or anticonsumerism are ... Well first of all, lets define consumerism, according to the dictionary.com consumerism mean

–noun

1. a modern movement for the protection of the consumer against useless, inferior, or dangerous products, misleading advertising, unfair pricing, etc.

2. the concept that an ever-expanding consumption of goods is advantageous to the economy.

3. the fact or practice of an increasing consumption of goods: a critic of American consumerism.

For us as the understanding of technology, I think everyone thinks that technology makes their life better, but what if one day technology just die on us? Are we just going to let it happen and not continue to live without it? or will the world just totally go out of control? I believed that teachnology can be good but sometimes it may be bad, we cannot just rely on technology every single day of our life. We must be in control because technology is not always positive. Consuming too much could cause harm to one another especially to nature itself. Sometimes when one use technology too much in their daily life they would start to forget about other things. For example, spending time on the computer and not realizing that the sun has come down. People don't exercise much in their daily life either, I guess another way to say this is that people are lazy. Even I myself have become lazy at times. Multitask has become psrt of people life in which they tend to suppose get something finish first but then they add in another. Computer has become a major affect in many lives because it transport information faster. Along with shopping, people buy too much of everything that they did not think about it if they really need it. And so this repeat over and over again. Even if we want to stop, their is this crave for more.