Google is slowly taking over our lives, not that it's a bad thing! We've seen Google all over the internet with its own email, aim, search engine, owning youtube etc etc etc. This is nothing new. But Google is now spreading its wings and heading to the phone world.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Yet Another Story About Google...
Google is slowly taking over our lives, not that it's a bad thing! We've seen Google all over the internet with its own email, aim, search engine, owning youtube etc etc etc. This is nothing new. But Google is now spreading its wings and heading to the phone world.
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Addicted to Facebook/Twitter? You're not the only one...
Monday, November 30, 2009
Google's Take Over
The more we feed into this industry, and as our need to be up-to-date on the latest technology, I can only predict that our mass consumerism will help this company to flourish and basically take over all forms of the web. That is, of course, after Google teams up with Facebook. That team up would be unstoppable.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Movie Star Heart Throbs Help Fans Develop Healthy Relationships?
Monday, October 19, 2009
This Bird Was Never Meant To Soar.
Media Take Over- People Are Catching On
So this may not be the best picture ever because I had to scan it, but I thought it was really necessary to blog about. This "Mutts" comic-strip (by Patrick McDonnell) was in last Sunday's Newsday (10/11/09). Looking at it, I think it is pretty self explanatory. Advertising has taken over everything! McDonnell is not using his comic to advertise something, but to show how ridiculous the industry has actually become.
Seeing this made me automatically think of the hot summer days lying on the sand of Robert Moses field 5 and seeing the planes fly over head with big banners advertising a type of beer or a sale at a local store. It never really clicked on how absurd that really is until now.
Leave it to 'man' to take something as serene and natural as nature and inundate it with media. Thinking more into it, I realized how advertising is literally EVERYWHERE.
Driving into the city, I get so excited to go shopping or see a play, and for half of the ride there I'm stared at by hundreds of billboards. Listening to the radio, I hear the hosts talk for twenty minutes about their phones before I realize they are trying to sell me something. It seems like companies will buy whatever space they can to get their name out there. Before we know it cars won't be available in black or red, they will come in either a McDonalds, or a Wendy's. Clothes (other than advertising the store or brand that makes them) will have pictures of new inventions that minimize the use of your washing machine, or the blanket with built in cup holders. Competition in the advertising world has yet to make its peak, which is frightening because no one will know how far it will go.
So I COMPLETELY agree with what McDonnell is trying to say. This industry has outstretched itself so much that there is nothing that it can't do. Just like Mooch (the cat in the comic-strip) I have to ask... Where does it end?