Young Adults and Advertising

It is pretty interesting to me how well "Feed" plays into the idea that teenagers and even society as a whole will completely play into and allow themselves to be manipulated by the media. Often, I am not the type of person who puts much thought into the so-called influence of the media, because I typically like to believe that I am not easily influenced. However, after reading "Feed" I realized just how much impact advertising and the media has on my buying trends. The parallels between the feed in the book and advertising in real life is so similar in that we are confronted with advertisements, commericials, web pages, books, movies, and TV shows every single day that attempt to sway our thoughts, opinions, and consumer trends. We are programmed in the same way that a feed programs the brain. Between the government and the media (which may be one in the same) we are caught in a never ending parade of attempted sway.