Sometimes I feel that the media is taken for granted in today's society. Parents, grandparents, even some aunts and uncles didn't have the privlage that today's youth encounter everyday through media devices. Facebooking, blogging, texting, gps systems, laptops, and I-pods are a part of my everyday life, okay not all of that, but the majority. Considering the media today I feel that if we were less "into it" as a society there would be a greater emphasis placed on conversation and life long learning, as well as less confusion on how to run things. I don't think that we would be technologically backward if we found better ways to spend our time, and sliced our media time in two. The more time spent with ourselves, the more lonely and depressed we can become, and an unhappy society leads to a depressed world; maybe that's why we are in a recession.