Bowling For Colombine

        Click. Bang. These words are the sound a gun makes when it fires. The gripping documentary   Bowling for Colombine is a based off the shooting at Colombine high school located in littleton, USA. It shows the horror of the school shooting and puts it into perspective  using  interveiws with people in the comuity and footage from the school, that stimulate your tear gland. The director adds in a cartoon for fun and expresses the problem of bad gun control in the USA.

  The documentary Bowling For Colombine narrated by Michael Moore expresses three main problems, guns are not controled properly, the public is being fed violence to create fear, and racisim. In this film Michael Moore goes into a bank in the US to open a bank account, with an opening of an account at this bank you get a free gun. Anyone can own as many guns as they like and the amunition to load them. Making it easy to "protect yourself" from harm, but it also makes it easy for kids, terrorists and mentaly unstable people to obtain them as well. Does this make it safer or dangerous in a society with guns? The US has a high murder rate commited by guns, larger than most other developed countries. It only takes one shot to kill someone. Violence, is beeing shown on tv in the news, and movies it makes people wonder, what if? What if someone breaks into my house? What if someone threatens my family? What if.....? What if..?  Caused by propaganda in today's social media this question is spreading. The media is pumping fear into our bloodsream using the excuse that we need to be prepared.

This was a biased film that was baced on fact. Howerver the whole truth is not stated and Michael Moores methods were odd. He uses a roller coaster of emotions to keep the audience entertaineed and implies a certain point of view. This makes the film deceiving and should not be qualified as an accurate documentary. 

The New paparazzi

      The only way to avoid starring in party pictures on Facebook is to skip the party. The Article The New Paparazzi by Emma Teitel, expresses concern about modern day social media and all the problems it causes in our society today. The main problems that the author explores are, the lack of control and youths attitude toward this growing problem.

      One problem expressed in this article is the lack of control that we experience due to social media. Due to cell phones pictures can be taken at any time even without consent, this is not unusual  "Generation Y is obsessed with documenting its social life" using things such as Facebook and Twitter. Photo's can be posed without  the people in them even knowing, you don't need to have Facebook to be posted on it. Girls are one of the main serial camera carriers. People can look at your pictures without you knowing it just like you can look at theirs, meaning someone you do not know  could be observing your daily life.

    Another major issue with Social media is generation Y's attitude towards it. They live for the now not for the future they don't understand how one incriminating picture can haunt you years down the line, they have FOMO(fear of missing out) syndrome. "If you go to a party and you don't appear in the Facebook album, were you really there?" is one problem that is coming out Generation Y does not like to be taken out of the social loop, they need proof that you were really there. That is why adult-driven campaigns will not curb not-consensual photo sharing, it is like trying to uproot a culture that is constantly changing.

   

This is a major problem for Generation Y's future due to the problems that may arise from inappropriate pictures posted in past years. They do not care that they are invading someone's privacy by looking at personal photo's or that even showing up at a party could put you in one or more photo's taken. this is a growing problem that all Generation Y has it is a chronic illness that keeps coming back to haunt the daily lives of all who use the power of social media.