Commentary On The Novel Feed

After reading the novel Feed, I’ve begun to realize that our society has been evolving in to a digital age. Also being in a digital age we have been manipulated by mass media. I have chosen to address these issues because the novel feed can relate to them well. Every character has a feed, which is directly into their brain. Having internet connected to you at all times, you get very reliant on it. Now a days if you don’t know something or don’t understand something, we look toward Google for an immediate answer.
Each character was a teenager, unless you heard about their parents. When they went to the moon, on their way there they were looking up things to do using the Feed. A quote from M.T Anderson he says “And the feed was pouring in on
Being in a hospital without being able to ask the Feed questions about being hacked or a diagnosis to become fixed probably was the worst part. Becoming addicted to the internet and not using your own brain for thoughts can truly become a struggle. Internet and having a Feed is the answer to everything. For each character it was interesting because most of them were teenagers. You really didn’t hear of their parents having a Feed to rely on. Also with our day an age, my generation is more likely to figure out how to use internet or a Feed without a problem. Whereas my parent’s generation, they would most likely have more of a struggle. Many of the teens today would most likely agree with me that Facebook is old and we have moved onto other social media. Meanwhile our parents are still stuck on Facebook and didn’t get the memo
So with my comparison to the feed and today’s world I truly don’t feel it being much different. We have become so used to just having answers right away, as soon as we touch our cell phones. Manipulation via mass media might just get worse and no one can find out who they really are, especially if new trends start to come out just like the lesions in Feed, everyone might want what’s