In our society today we as individuals within the mass of Social Media, Television, Internet, and movies have changed in how we have come to interact now in our day to day lives. The ways of yesterday are long gone and we are now a fast, growing, and revolving media culture. With all this new technology that has drastically changed our American cultures and many of the ways. We do not live in a day and age where we are followers of the traditional and proper ethics in which we all have once lived by and for. It has also had huge impacts on the way we now communicate with others; Facebook, Twitter, Texting, and E-Mails have become the communication outlets for our American culture of today. With Facebook it has three ways that it is possible for you to share your information with others: friends only, friends of friends, or everyone (Albanesius, 2010). This establishes what type of privacy you may like to set as a preference to have when an individual may want to contact or view your profile (Albanesius, 2010). Although it has caused our younger generation to display content that is unethical. This generation has also become quite materialistic, causing them to want the top name brands to keep up with their peers, to keep up with the “Jones”, at all costs in some cases. Teens have hurt other individuals recorded this event, and then post this on these social media sites for their own satisfaction, not thinking about the life altering affects this would have on the individuals. In some cases the result has been suicide. In this case there have been many negative effects to individuals with no regard to themselves or others involved.
These advancements have also affected the movies and television we watch today. There are no longer just the basic networks, cable television is now the only way we can receive television. Cable television has broadened the spectrum in a wide range of changes in the ways our programs are viewed today. The content of visual...