My Weekend

This weekend went by way too fast, but it was really fun. On Friday, a bunch of my friends and I went downtown for dinner to celebrate Courtney and Alyx's birthday. Let's just say it turned out to be an interesting night. We were suppose to go to a restaurant called "Dick's Last Resort" but we didn't end up going there and instead we walked around for a good 45 minutes trying to find a place that would take 11 of us at 7 o'clock on a Friday night. We ended up finding a really great Italian place and they sat us down pretty quick, too! All was going great until we realized we had to catch the 8:35 train and it was 8:15 and we still weren't done. We got everything to go, got our check and jumped in two cabs. Our cab got there just in time while the other cab went to the wrong train station, but luckily somehow made it on time. Overall it was pretty chaotic but really fun.

Does Our Era Have Something to Call Our Own?

Truthfully, I do not believe that our era has our own genre or something that we can call our own. Everywhere we turn, we are constantly being bombarded by companies and businesses that are telling us how to look and act. I feel as though there is no room to be unique or different than others, even if we wanted to. I do think that everyone is different in their own way, but we tend to all fall into a similar category of our society. We can hardly think on our own because day in and day out, we are being told what is socially acceptable. However, some people do tend to rebel our culture through the way they dress and/or through different types of music. Just like in the movie, teens were interested in “IPC” because MTV hadn’t taken it over yet and teens could “call the band their own”. While many teens seem to want to call something their own, it seems that it is near impossible to actually do so. With the media constantly showing and telling us what we should think and do, it has become a true challenge to call something our own. Everything has been handed to us so even if we wanted to be different; there would not be much room to be unique. This is the sad reality to what our society has become. Imagine when our grandparents were teens and how much room they had to be whoever they wished to be. Now, with all the media down our backs, we have no other choice but to go along with what everyone else is doing.

Brands: How Far Will They Go?

When I look at the statement, "It's a shame that the people who are listening to you the most are only interested in you because they want you and your peers to buy their product." I completely agree with it and think that it is 100% valid. Advertisement companies are constantly watching and listening to what we, as a culture, have to say-especially about their product. They are always looking for different ways to attract teens and young adults into buying their new item and make it seem as though they are talking just to us. This method seems to make us feel as though they know everything about us and actually care about our needs and wants. So truthfully, I think it is sad to know that the people spending the most time listening to us and seeing what works with us only truly care because our reaction, makes their company and products better in the future.