How much influence does the media have on the public?

[dana]

i hate hate hate the social networking sites. they are big wastes of time and some people spill their guts on there and give out way too much info about their lives. no one wants to know that you and youre boyfriend are fighting all the time. its stupid. and the media is making it worse by getting invoved with them to. myspace and facebook didnt used to have advertisements and companies profiles. nowadays its all there. like them on facebook and you'll get exculsive offers!! maybe a company does that to see how many people really do like them. like for statistic reasons. either way, facebook is addicting and can ruin peoples lives and relationships. there is absolutely no privacy and its virtually impossible to truely delete your account. if you go through the 900 steps to delete it and then try signing in, your profile will "come back to life" like you never even deleted it in the first place. i really hope america gets out of this viral slump with facebook and the reality tv slump with jersey shore. none of those are educational in any way, theyre just wastes of time. i want to move to a different country, prehaps canada or italy. atleast those countries have a better sense of what theyre doing, aye?