With the lack of media literacy, for some, there is a thin line between media content and reality. Everyday media content becomes more and more convincing as to what our lives should consist of. As mentioned throughout the course, without media literacy, we are unaware as to what messages are important and what messages are not. Advertisements through media content cause us to forget about the products we already posses and make us believe that we need other products to survive. Sometimes the advertising portal or social media site becomes our reality and addiction. With automaticity of checking our social media sites everyday, it becomes part of our daily routine and our day can not be complete without doing so.
The reality of media content is that it has become our reality, whether we want to accept it or not. As the years move forward, so does technology. The more ways that are developed for us to consume media content, the more exposure we will have. Our lives are becoming saturated as we know it, and there’s nothing we can do about it. Those who know what life was like before media content saturation know the difference between a balanced life style and a social media life style. Those growing up in more current times, will only know this media saturated world as “normal.”
Being someone who experienced life before a media content saturated world, I am able to filter out the messages that are spoiling my brain and separate media from reality. My reality consists of the things I actually need to survive, not the things that media content makes me think I need to survive.