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Anytime you're put on the spot to figure out who you are in relation to the media, you'll notice how inarticulate you will be in trying to answer that question. If in fact you feel this way, you're possibly too consumed in media to even begin to think of who you are without it, or in it. It's like you get lost in trying to find yourself through media, let me explain. Media is so prominent in our society because it changed the way we intake news, music, fashion and art; everything appears so fast and then disappears as new media emerges. It can be quite overwhelming to a person who has embedded in their head that they have to take note every time a new piece of information is released to the web. You're probably reading this and asking yourself "what does this have to do with anything?" The thing is, if we lived without this fast paced media,  we would have a time to think about what it is we actually think of ourselves without the outside lens influencing us to be a person the media projects us to be. Now, I always thought I was at least one step ahead of the game because I know that media is a huge influence of how we think of ourselves and I try very hard not to allow media to change my own personal views and values about life. However, in me doing so, I can also tune the media out so much that I'm blind to the actual news outlets that try their best to release truths and in a domino effect I help the media generate the things I would consider trash (i.e. click bait, propaganda, reality television, etc.) by actually giving it my attention because in the back of my mind "I expect these things already." So what does that make me? A hypocrite or a person is controlled by media but would rather not admit that. 

It's true, I'm totally influenced by media. Media is my life, I'm a millennial; but when is it too much? 

My favorite platform is Twitter; I am always on Twitter. Every semester I deactivate all other accounts, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, but not Twitter. Why is that? Let's look at the things I do on Twitter: 

Absolutely nothing, I do absolutely nothing on Twitter except retweet my Leo horoscope "character traits", insensitive jokes about politics and people who I would consider idiots. It's not even like I'm entertained by all of these things, it's just very addicting if you let yourself become reliant on it. However, I promise I don't use my media for satire purposes only. I also retweet articles about black, male, female oppression (http://www.thenewsherald.com/opinion/the-oppression-of-women-is-alive-and-well-in-the/article_1b5846bc-32a7-57e7-9798-f5d799252de4.html), I tweet about how the media uses propaganda to control the discourse of our nation; I actually use my media for good (most times). When I tweet about those things, that's when I'm most myself on media. 

I don't give media enough credit, personally. Anytime I get into an in depth conversation about how media is out to control us ,how it pushes negative agendas about women and minorities to turn everyone against us, but really, if we weren't shown those things, if we didn't know about these things, we wouldn't have our own opinion. The media allowed us to have an opinion. The truth is, media IS informative; without media, I probably wouldn't be so passionate about change. Everything is put in your face because of media, its up to you to refrain from being gullible and believing everything that is published is true, that's how you overcome "media oppression," but not being afraid to learn and research and think.