Who am I ?

            My name is Kianni Johnson. I am an English Language Arts major with a minor in psychology and this is my senior year at Hunter. My role in media consumption is pretty average, in my opinion. I have an active Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat account. I use these accounts frequently in my everyday life but they do not consume my life. I do not watch television regularly, I actually am not a fan of it. I do have a Netflix account which I use occasionally, to watch shows and movies, on days like; a snow day, when I actually have free time.

         I do not make any media. However, I do have a blog which I post too occasionally, but that is a once in a while thing. Last semester I wrote a paper about how I believe Social media has changed the way people interact and how it is ruining people’s lives. As well as, the dangers of exposing a child to media at a young age and how damaging it can be in the long run. Many children grow up having media be used as a pacifier to quite them when they are upset or distract them when their parents are busy and I truly despise it. As a Pre-k teacher it is not surprising to me when I discover a child who is unable to interact appropreiately with his peers because he plays video games with his siblings or watches tv all day. They may lack the skills to make friends and this can follow them as they grow up, making them more likely to be able to express themselves or make friends. This website helps defend my point of the damaging effects of social meda.

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865609628/How-technology-is-changing-the-way-we-communicate.html

Who I am is not measured against media examples. I am who I am because of me. I am not highly influenced by the media. My everyday life does not involve sharing mass media events. I could live without media, if necessary. I actually believe life would be much more healthier without most of it. The media has a way of corrupting people and it always worries me about the messages they send out to children. Children are like sponges and they soak up everything so it is important to me to make sure that there is positive information available in the media.

In my paper about social media, I also discovered that smartphone users are developing “checking habits”, which are 30-second glances at social media such as Facebook — as often as every 10 minutes. This shows that people are becoming anxious. An obsession is something that builds up an anxiety so that we have to do something about it to relieve it” — in this case, check for contact from one's social group.

http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre2013012500

This can become very troublesome so it is important to me that while media does play an important role in the world, it does not take over and become a NEED or something people are unable to live without. People still need to learn how to interact face to face, instead of just screen to screen.