pop culture; what is its effect on you?

Pop culture effects everyone in many ways, whether its magazines, TV, music, or even styles and the newest trends.

I am one of the many teenage girls who has a list of shows they watch every week. Shows from, Americas Next Top Model, to One Tree Hill, and even the Hills. Televising in our society is huge. Along with TV, music is another huge thing. Everyone always knows the top songs on itunes or the latest great song. I'm also one of the thousands of teenagers who always has an ipod earphone in my ear, and am always downloading the newest hits.

Magazines are another huge part of our society. From People, to Seventeen, to US Weekly and so on. Magazines are things that everyone reads to stay connected to the celebrity world and learn about the newest trends and styles. From reading magazines, teenage girls especially, get an idea in their head of what their suppose to look like. Even if it's not true, or healthy the media shows us what we should look like, and if we don't, we feel different or bad about ourselves. I think that this is part of the reason some people are anorexic or bulimic. Even though its not right at all, some people feel pressured into looking like their favourite celebrity.

So I think personally that pop culture has a huge influence on everyone. Even if its just so they know the newest and greatest music, or if its to a further degree of finding out what they should look like. Even just buying a magazine or looking up on the Internet about the latest movie your favourite actor is in. Pop culture effects everyone differently, and on different levels.