Droog Loops <3

Jaaayy's Droog-Loops
Take a bite outta life!

Pretty much this cereal is aimed at 16-40 year olds who are in to alternative "indie" culture and enjoy psychological exploration films such as A Clockwork Orange. Target markets include teenagers 16-19, psychologists, neurological scientists, or anyone who uses powerful hallucinagenic drugs. Marketing techniques used in captivating this target group includes selling of indulgences and excitement. With Droog Loops by Jay, there is never a dull moment!

cigs and drank, whats the deal.

Cigarettes and alcohol in movies, on television, and in our favorite magazines. We see them everyday and whether we realize it or not we are being subjected to their advertisement. Alcohol and tobacco are often portrayed as something cool and mature and is designed to attract the youths of this country. Also they can be portrayed as a means of escape from reality in order to deal with heavy stress and emotional troubles. This is a popular and controversial topic because these company's advertisement are believed to be aimed at teens and present a false image of these products' reality. Advertisements don't show the grave of the man who died from lung cancer from smoking his whole life. And they don't show the family that he left behind. Earlier in the 1950s and 60s many cartoons including Warner Brothers' popular cartoons, involved the smoking of cigars in many shorts and have many 'tabacco incidents'. While this use of tabacco was eventually band from television in the 1970s, it's placement still remains in movies, in movies that are aired on television. It is an undeniable fact, this placement of tobacco and alcohol in films and in magazines encourages teens to pick up these habits which usually turn into addictions.

to catch a predator...

In media class we watched a video on the effects the internet has had on my generation. I thought this video spoke some serious truths about what goes on in the lives of my peers, online and offline. I agree that many of my friends as well as myself use social networking sites as a means to express ourselves to the fullest. The internet is non-confrontational which makes it so ideal for being yourself, since no one is there to point and laugh if they don't like who you are. Many use the internet as an alternate identity that normally they wouldn't feel comfortable living in real life. This can be dangerous for a few reasons. Teens my age spends hours upon hours of their time on the internet. Whether its meeting new people, messaging friends, or updating your profile, it is allotted a pretty large portion of their day. Many feel a connection through social networking that otherwise couldn't be obtained such as those who are friends online and talk online but never in real life. Some post risque pictures and attract people that they did not intend to. The dangerous thing is, that there is no way to know IF these people are dangerous or not. That's all I got. I got dial-up so one can imagine I don't spend much time online.

"i'm a robot". "stop it".

I think blogging is a fun and interactive way to share one's thoughts with other people. You can virtually write about anything you want and it's just there. Anyone can read it and leave comments. Not only that but your blog can be found in web searches on google which means more people will be able to read what you've wrote. You can talk politics or the economy with someone you don't even know and it's just really sweet to get some really different viewpoints and perspectives on things.

Urban Legends: A Deeper Look

While searching the web for some pretty entertaining urban legends I found one that was not only funny, but true! Here it is. A team of FBI agents were performing a search and seizure on a psychiatric hospital that was under suspiscion of medical insurance fraud. About 60 agents had been rummaging through the place all day and had gotten pretty hungry. The lead investigator calls a local pizza joint requesting an order of 19 large pizzas and 67 cans of pop. Upon describing their location, and that he had to feed 60 FBI agents, the clerk said "I don't think so" and hung up the phone. =)

Media Violence- Is this good, is this what I want??

To me, media violence is a way for media conglomerates to gain more ratings by feeding Americans’ need for violent entertainment. Over the many years of televisions existence in the United States, television programming is allowing more and more content that would have been banned or questioned in the past. The reason for this, I believe, is a progressive trend of demoralization in American society and more prominently in American media. There is little violence that is censored when it comes to television, ads, etc in the United States. It is safe to say, for the most part, that American families are becoming desensitized to some if not all violence. Shows like 24 and C.S.I are just two examples of violent programming that should probably cut back on violent scenes and up-close images of cadavers. These shows are extremely popular as they have lasted many seasons. Too many Americans rationalize violence as good and necessary entertainment without thinking about harmful repercussions to their thoughts, their children’s thoughts, and how it might affect their mental health in the future.