Me As A Consumer of the Media

I'm Agne Jurkenaite(16), a 6th former at Kettering Buccleuch Academy, studying media along with art, graphics and IT. Why am I here is to share my many viewpoints of media with you! I very do hope you enjoy browsing my blog and I thank you for caring to visit!

I have already managed to live a quarter of my life dependent just on the Internet. I'm very familiar with social medias like YouTube, FaceBook and DeviantArt, but mostly Tumblr. I believe I have been very successful with the 1,848 followers I earned, and still growing! 



Tumblr’s purpose is to allow users to share anything effortlessly with the world. I often use it just for entertainment, enjoying what others post as well as posting things myself, but sometimes I come across important and most recent news, and I think it’s a great way of getting the news this way because you’re enjoying yourself whilst still getting information on what’s going on around the world rather than having to sit down and read the newspapers (which I totally don’t wish on doing). I believe Tumblr is a great source of news for teenagers like me whose lives depend on the Internet, and many dislike reading nowadays so there’ll be very little chance of them picking up the newspaper.


I believe Tumblr also has a huge impact on me as a person. A lot of people post personal things that sometimes inspire me and makes me want to be like them, and at times it’s very effective. Sometimes it changes the way I think about certain things, or even affects me as a person (I hope not in a bad way).

For further inspiration, I often visit Deviant Art; a place where you get to share your very own art, and enjoy others' works ranging from students (like myself) to professional artists! I think this website is a very great advantage to see how art is made in different parts of the world by different people, although you won't get to witness the famous arts, it's as good as! 

Another media that plays a large part in my mediums of communication world is FaceBook. I believe its one of the greatest inventions, though I don't tend to use FaceBook for everything they have to offer, it's the best way I keep my socialisation active and going. If I cannot make it when I'm  to meet up with friends or etc I can just have a chat with them on FaceBook instead! It might've triggered my way of typing a little but I can still manage proper grammar if necessary! 

It has changed the way I relate to people, like when I get to know more than I believe I should about them. I think when living in widely-populated areas you're bound to want to know what's going on in the city and I believe FaceBook makes that easier. 

Okay, so I do agree that Internet has caused me to stay indoors for longer hours, and I admit it has affected me as a whole; I've become much less sociable when I have these entertainments being pulled by this machine I stare at for hours every single day. Sigh.. I should get a new hobby.


WELCOME TO THE INTERNET

2 comments:

  1. This makes interesting reading Agne as, like many teenagers, you appear to have a mild form of addiction to social media and the Internet. Could you imagine living in a world without the Internet? How would it change the way in which we all live?

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    1. I don't even wanna go there, sir, I really can't. I guess the world would be more segregated.

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