The craze of facebook

I didn't think i'd be one of 'those', by that i mean be someone who becomes addicted(well not exactly addicted)to facebook. I don't even know why i like it, i suppose it's just another way to speak to your friends. It seems to just become more and more popular..i wasn't really fussed about it before and i don't think my brother wanted me to get it, but now i use it a lot. I think now everyone has got older, it seems people want to use things that older people have or use to fit in. Although i do get bored after i've seen the same homepage and status' for a while, and end up going on for a bit 5 minutes and then signing out. People generally tend to talk about it at school or around, and pictures taken normally end up on facebook and being tagged whether you like it or not. However, i don't like the idea that everyone knows everytime you wrote on someone's wall or on a picture ; And everytime you update your status everyone can see it..who am i kidding, i'm nosey, i love it!

E-Media 1-Heat magazine article

"We're skinny-get over it" is the first thing i saw when i looked at the front cover of heat magazine a couple of weeks ago. Almost every magazine you read now seems to be covered with pictures of tiny celebrities telling everyone how they got so skinny, or that skinny is their natural frame. But if this world is so determined to help people with eating disorders and stop them, then shouldn't think about who they put on the front cover of these magazines. Teenagers get confused because you see articles in magazines saying how to drop a dress size in 2 days or something ridiculous like that, but then if you watch like Gok Wan's programmes, you'll have him saying how everyone is different and to embrace your body shape. It seems like no one really knows what they want, surely people should stop highlighting the obvious amounts of skinny celebrities and focus on showing different body shapes and having fuller women on the covers of magazines. But at the end of the day, who actually cares how skinny celebrities are and what they eat for breakfast. Everyone seems to thrive off the knowledge that some celebrity has put on weight and that makes them feel better, when really it shouldnt. I don't agree that magazines should make you feel bad about your body shape, but maybe some people don't realise the effects of adverts or articles they print ; Which is why i found that Alisha Dixon programme so interesting because these young children were saying it was a good thing that they weren't fat. I think the caption on the magazine was right, get over it, there'll only be someone else on the front cover next week!

Stephen Fry in Amercia

So i didn't really understand the programme too well, and i wasn't really sure what he was trying to achieve so i just picked up all the information i could. I thought it was interesting how each state had it's own story and own kind of variety of people. The states all had different feels to them and some of the interviews he had with people were funny and others were serious, so it was good to see the contrast.
I was shocked when one man in the programme said he had been homeless for 25 years, and then the couple said that they'd chose to be homeless. I thought that was a bit odd; Why would they want to live like that? I guess they weren't very materialistic. Then there was the whole thing with the firemen, and when Stephen Fry was in the vehicle, the fireman said that they thrive a fire which didn't really seem like an appropriate thing to say, but you could see where he was coming from. But then i liked that people had admitted that after the 9/11, they wanted to become firemen, to become heroes and save people's lives. And when he was in Chicago and he was interviewing the comedians, they were talking about being the 2nd city to New York ; One of them said that Chicago was always working and never rests. But isnt't that just the same as New York.
Anyway, that's about all i have to say! Now i need to find something for E-Media
P.s Am i the only one who didn't know that Morgan Freeman was 70?!

From Adele and Loubee

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