My Relationship with Media

I have a slightly unhealthy relationship with the media. I say this because I believe that my relationship with media isn't as good as some peoples but also certainly isn't as bad as other peoples'. I also say this because I believe that it is very difficult to have a good relationship with the media. This is because all forms of media a designed to be enticing and created to make you want to spend more time on the platform. Use Instagram as an example. The only way you can have a healthy usage of Instagram would likely be you going on and looking at posts of people that you know and have contact with. However, what ends up happening for me and most other people is that after we look at the posts of people that we know, we soon get distracted by other posts of people that we don't know, or more often random news accounts and comedy pages. This also applies to almost every social media platform such as Facebook or Twitter. Once anyone enters this area on any social media platform, that person's relationship with that platform would be considered unhealthy, because the platform immediately becomes a distraction rather than a form of communication. And because I tend to become distracted and sucked into social media and allow it to become a form of distraction rather than a form of communication, my relationship with this aspect of the media, social media, is unhealthy.
In my opinion I believe that there are two other forms of media. One of them is advertisement. Advertisement certainly isn’t an all bad thing and is generally very beneficial for certain aspects of society such as our economy. However, I do believe that it is impossible to personally have a positive relationship with advertisement through the media. I believe that advertisement can be beneficial for those creating the ads and those generating profit through ads, but that relationship is not through the media. Namely, if you don’t think you need something, chances are you don’t actually need that thing, which makes advertisement immediately unhealthy because a lot of advertisement either pushes people towards something they don’t need and is useless or advertisement is simply a distraction, making it impossible to have a positive relationship with the media through the form of advertisement. Therefore, my relationship with the media is further pushed into an unhealthy direction because I have influence with advertisement.
The final primary for of media that I come into interaction with is the news. While it is very important to have some kind of relation to this aspect of media and is necessary whether the relationship is healthy or unhealthy, it is once again almost impossible to have a healthy relationship. This is because in modern society, everything is so influenced by our political atmosphere that almost every major story is presented in a different way by different news stations to present certain ideas and concepts in a positive or negative light. In order to have a truly healthy relationship with the media, one must learn the story in its simplest form with just the facts and nothing else and form their opinion based off of that. However, this is very difficult to do because there is no truly unbiased news station in todays media, meaning that there is virtually no way to have a healthy relationship with the news. The only option to have a healthy relationship with the news is to read an article about the same story from several different viewpoints, and then formulate your own opinion based off of these several viewpoints. However, because I do not do this, I do not think I have a healthy relationship with the news either. Overall, because I do not have a particularly health relationship with any of the aspects of the media I regularly interact with, I have an unhealthy relationship with the media.