A: The thesis of this article is that Facebook is yet another step in converting our world to a completely corporate controlled cyberspace universe.

B: I agree with that rather than connect us, Facebook isolates us at our workstation. Tom points out that instead of drinking, chatting, and dancing with our friends we are sending them cyberspace messages that don’t even make sense. The actual physical interaction is what is valued in a relationship, not little messages between screens. I also agree with the following quote: “Share" is Facebookspeak for "advertise". Sign up to Facebook and you become a free walking, talking advert for Blockbuster or Coke, extolling the virtues of these brands to your friends. We are seeing the commodification of human relationships, the extraction of capitalistic value from friendships.” This quote solidifies the advertising spam that controls and intertwines with Facebook. It is mind blowing how Facebook has enabled corporate america to strengthen its stranglehold over us.

I disagree with Thiel’s thinking in terms to referencing a worker’s revolution and taxes. He believes that the worker’s can’t unite an take over the bank if the bank is in a place like Vanuatu. It is this kind of thinking that gets most powerful politicians and economists into trouble. Thiel’s intelligence and lust for success are also his two inhibitors in being a fully rounded and successful business man. I also disagree with the fact that Tom thinks that Facebook is uncreative. In fact I think it’s genius. Why? Because it has worked so successfully. To me anything that takes off like Facebook did is obviously a well though out idea. Now I think that morally Facebook is terrible but from a outside perspective its genius. Indiscrete advertising, social networking soon after the outrages of Myspace, and easy use. I don’t like Facebook but I have to say that its a hell of an idea.

2.) A: I thought that the concept of media literacy was very interesting because I think that many people in this day and age are completely media illiterate making it impossible for them to succeed in our media controlled lives. I also think its really scary how these massive corporations operate. For starters they are pitching the products that they are then going to turn around and sell to you. Secondly they go after you on an emotional level. Marketers have so narrowly pinpointed their respective markets that they can heavily sell certain products for different types of emotional and mental states. The last thing that I thought was really bizarre was the company that owns CBS and that is Viacom. Since 60 minutes is probably the most watched newscast in the country weekly, I was under the assumption that CBS was perhaps the most decent and straight to the point channel however after learning that the same company owns MTV I was shocked. All of a sudden that Janet Jackson boob doesn’t look like much of an accident after all.

3.)a:

-Looks are the most important value to a young woman developing into our twisted society. Advertisers design their ads to make girls feel guilty that they don’t look like the models. I thought that this was really twisted and bizarre.

-The ad with the woman as a bottle also stuck out. It adds to the cultural climate where woman are objects rather than things. The interesting point Kilbourne made was that this demeaning of a person to less than human is a direct course to violence.

-The concept of black women in ads being dressed and treated like jungle animals. Not only demeaning to women but incredibly racist as well dawning them with skins and furs.

-The fact that most women lost feeling in their breasts after implants solidifies the notion that they are simply objects for the man to play with and no longer belong to the woman because she can’t even feel them.

-Only 5 % of American women look like the sexy and desirable women from advertisements. This number blew my mind.

-I also wanted to comment on the ad “the more you subtract the more you add” because this train of thought is so detrimental to young women all over.