Reality TV Addiction Interview

Maya talks speaks to us about her Reality TV show addictions. The shows she watches and what draws her in to continously keep watching these type of shows.

Throughout the semester I have conducted four seperate interviews after each individual made the decision to abstain from the social networking website Facebook, for exact one week. These individuals included Calie Donnellly, Greg Orenstein, Daniel Simon, Bobby Brace and Lindsay Vanderheof.

Calie Donnelly is a twenty one year old student living in Barcelona, Spain. Being abroad she reminds herself to check Facebook as often as possible, but has other priorities and in reality will log in maybe four times a week. She admits to having 534 friends, but only contacting about five of them continously. She finds Facebook beneficial and a care free way to hold a strong contact with her loved ones and will post statuses on her upcoming travels and events she is attending. She also posts many photo's of such things. Although she is engaged in Facebook she doesn't pay much attention to things like Groups, Facebook Apps etc. After abstaining from Facebook for a week, it really didn't bother her much and she spend the week traveling in Milan, Italy. She does admit, after sometime she would not so much miss Facebook, but the ease of always being connected to her friends, and she would miss talking to those people.

Greg Orenstein is a twenty year old student attending University at Albany and studying Business Management. He has 547 friends on Facebook but say's he's not actively engaged, he prefers to spend his time on other websites such as Tumblr or Stumbleupon when spending leisure time on the internet. He will check Facebook about twice a week and talks to 5-10 people constantly through Facebook. These people are usually his close friends at school or close friends from high school he wishes to stay in contact with. He does not make any status updates, or posts, but he did admit to being addicted to the "Farmville" Application at one time. Although he doesn't use it much, he finds Facebook incredibly beneficial to stay in contact with friends he doesn't to talk to on a regular basis. He finds no one is engaged in their email or messaging accounts, and Facebook is the best and simplest option to do such things. He didn't mind or notice abstaining from Facebook for a week, but he would never delete it in fear he would lose his means of contact with his long distance friends. While spending his time away from Facebook he spent his time being a good student and studying more and doing his favorite activity, hiking.

Dan Simon is a twenty six year old residing in Coldspring, New York. He is actively engaged in Facebook and has to check it at least once a day. He has 622 friends and say he talks to at least twenty of them, even if he never talks to some of them in his day to day life. He says he gets so much feedback because he posts very oftenly. He posts everything from pictures, to status updates, even music and youtube videos. He doesn't however have any Facebook Applications and isn't engaged in the Facebooks Groups. Abstaining from Facebook was a hard task for Dan, as he usually has it connected to his iphone. After spending a week away from it he says he realized how addicting it has become, he has always felt a need to go "check" and see if someone has contacting him. He finds being engaged with people through Facebook as exciting. However, after spending a week away from it he also realized how it can be a complete distraction, as he gotten a lot accomplished throughout his week. Dan is very interested in cars, and is infact a mechanic. Although he spends most of his time working on cars, he never could find the time to enhance and work on his own very car, until this week where he spent his time taking his entirely dark blue WRX and making a black and white WRX. After he had gotten this accomplished he realize he had felt better about getting all the thing he wanted done and is rethinking how much time he should be putting into this social networking Website.

Bobby Brace is twenty two and resides in Somers, New York. He checks his Facebook everyday and considers himself to be very engaged. He has 362 friends but will talk to only about ten or so. He posts many statuses consisting of lyrics from his band, and youtube videos. Being involved in a band he see's the benefits of Facebook as it can be a great networking tool to get people who usually get the opportunity to listen to his music, to have a chance to do so. After leaving Facebook for a week he realizes how people tend to take their personal Facebooks and their virtual ego, "too seriously". Although he finds Facebook to be highly beneficial he thinks people need to remember, it is just a website, and it is not your life. While Bobby also works on his music, he is also an avid collector, specially for PEZ. He spent his week enhancing his PEZ collection.

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

Questions to be asked to Maya during our interview about her addiction to Reality TV.

1. How often do you find yourself watching Reality TV?
2. When/How did you start becoming addicted to Reality TV?
3. Do you only watch Reality TV?
4. When is the best day to watch Reality TV? Why?
5. What channels carry the best Reality TV shows?
6. What is the worst Reality TV show you have watched?
7. What is the most memorable Reality TV show?
8. When you watch Reality TV are you following the events that is going on, or the people?
9. After you have taken a break from certain Reality TV shows, do you begin to miss them? Why?
10. Do you think Reality TV impacts your life at all?

Podcast

Victor Calderone Manipulating Wave Forms. A podcast hosted by DJ Victor Calderone, popular in the house music scene.  In this podcast he choose's songs to remix together for an hour long.

National Public Radio. This podcast is a narration of the daily tops news formed together by the editors of NPR. The podcast had no music, only narration of various stories, mostly international.  Lasted about half hour.

New York Times Podcast. New York Times had an option of three to choose from, a Book Review, the tops news, and the science section. I chose the top news which is compilation chosen by the editors of New York Times. Very similar to NPR's podcast, this also lasted a half hour

ROUGH DRAFT

Social media continues to consume our everyday life. In this story we are going to look at Facebook, a networking website I feel to be the most prominent in our current generation. With the majority connected to this one site, is it beneficial to constantly be connected to Facebook, or is it a creating a negitive downfall?


In this study in perticular, subjects who are interviewed are those we are currently on Facebook, active or not, however, they will be asked to be disconnected for a span for an entire week. After the week is over I will ask a series of questions in order to deteremine if Facebook can be used as useful tool to network & market with one another, and connect to others they may have not done so without it, or do they find it as a constant nuisance as it's in the back in their head to continously check what is on their newsfeed? Do subjects come to a peace of once they've disconnected as they can focus on priority subjects rather than frivalous news.

INTERVIEWING PLAN

SUBJECTS TO BE INTERVIEWED:

Dan Simon - Putnam New York - Age 26

Greg Orenstein - Albany New York - Age 20

Calie Donnelly - Barcelona Spain - Age 21

Bobby Brace - Westchester New York Age 24

Liam Wheeler - Westchester New York Age 20

Text only Interview.
Questions Include:

1. How often do you use Facebook
2. How many friend do you have on Facebook?
3. How many of those friends to you consistently interact with through Facebook?
4. What do you post? Videos? Quotes? Articles? Etc?
5. Do you often get feedback, if so, from who?
6. Do you have any Facebook Apps? Which ones do you use? Why?
7. Do you belong to any Facebook Groups? 
8. What advertisements appear when you're logged into Facebook?
9. What situations have you found Facebook interaction to be beneficial?
10. What situations have you found Facebook has harmed your interaction?
11. After initally disconnecting from Facebook for twenty-four hours, how did you feel?
12. After disconnecting from Facebook for an entire week, how did you feel?
13. Would you still keep your Facebook? Why or why not?

Is It Beneficial To Disconnect From Facebook?

WHO

Members engaged in the social media website Facebook

WHAT

Does social media, specifically Facebook cause discouragement and negative faults, or was their  personal growth and benefits gained?

WHEN

Seven Days (One Week)

WHERE

All around the globe

WHY

To see the effects of social media. Do the benefits of continuously being connected outweigh the everyday noisances we are faced with while being connected to Facebook, or is it more beneficial to be disconnected from the medium?

HOW

Abstain from Facebook for a seven day period.

SO WHAT

To be brought to a consensus on Facebook specifically, whether most of us find is as a negative or positive outlet.

HOW AM I GOING TO COVER THIS
interviews from various people (male and females) of all ages, from different demographics.

Dear my fellow beer drinkers, new beer drinkers & drinkers of all kinds,

Tell me it's not humorous to see Mr.Sam Adam's over here expecting us to believe their innovative beer is just what we needed because they have one up on the rest of the pack with their holiday spices.

As if a bunch of middle aged CEO's in black suits rocking the same J.F.K haircut located in an upscale office in Manhattan are actually sittting around trying to find a spice more enjoyable for their loyal customers during the holidays.

And they must think they're pretty brilliant by feeding us images of their mid-thirties male & female customers warming up by the fire with your beer while surrounded by the fresh pines and the snow covered mountains.  Must be pretty authetic by adding cinnamon, ginger, and orange peel produced in a middle of nowhere town that looks like it might be straight out of the Twilight saga.

23 September 2007 - Christian Mehlführer
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And these little masterminds add the extra kick by informing viewer only Sam Adam's has incorporated Zigon cinnamon from Solvenia, giving that exotic edge, while presented the spice as pure and untouched. Ohhh Please! You're little fancy cameras and bubbly spokes personnel still dont do you justice as we realize your new spice is simply coming from a small village in southeast asia where there is cheaper labor for your product.  How do we know this? Your mediocure beer still tastes like the same shit you've been pouring down our throats every other year.  And they must think, "Oh but hey, who will ever notice? Who would ever look into such a thing?" Certainly not these college kids paying for an "education."

Well, for all you closet alcoholics you sure know YOU DO CARE. You should care, outraged really when you realize half your paycheck seems to fall into the hands of these companies as they further immoral work ethics and provide you with shitty beer!  Sam Adams please stop taking yourself so seriously until you actually do something to help better our current world, and until that time comes, please save it.

now here are my words of wisdom

In the begining a higher being created the heavens and the earth. A gift was sent to as a piece of heaven on earth to help us enjoy the life and earth beneath our feet. The named this gift Stella Artois.

Rule 1: Stella Artois is the shit

Rule 2: Dogfish is for winners

With it's 23 % ABV you would think this means getting more and spendless. WRONG. If you're ordering a dogfish you're probably at the point where all of the rest of the ameuture beers on tap just don't cut it anymore. So no matter what you intended on orderings, you were prepared to drop some bills.  Dogfish just helps speed up the process.

Rule 3: Coors = H20

Rule 4: Keystone =  

Rule 5: O'Douls = FAIL

Never order a Coors, because there is nothing worse than a Coors.  You might as well order a water. 

 Keystone should cease to exsit as a beer.  At least O'Doul's admit's to their douchebagedness with it no alcohol content appeal. Keystone on the other hand, thinks they can actually get away with it.  There only profit is off these educated college kids still think there about to get hammered for there Thirsty Thursday because Keystone throws a beer label across the can as these pathetic little suckers buy 30 racks of them, as it is all they can afford.

GET A JOB AND GET A CLUE

Rule 6: Guinness, why not order a soda? 

'Binger'
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For all of you who thought you where tough for chugging down your guinness, its time to face the facts.  That crap is so sweet. Just because its dark doenst mean you're hard. This goes for Jack Daniels too.  I'm sick and tired of you little bastards thinking you're the bee's knee's because you shot down your first hard drink.  Let it be know, I will rape you with Jameson.

Now if I must bring liquor into this, I will point out a few things quickly:

Rule 7: Tequila WILL make you angry.

What Jose forgot to tell you is that Tequila has a secret ingrediant added into it, to give you that Spanish fiesta going.  They add a hint of fiesty to it, so while you're drinking your margarita on the rocks with no salt prepare yourself for battle because you will get into a fight and try to take someone out by the end of the night (even the bouner).

Tequila playground (2)'
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(the natives CLEARLY know whatsup, take this as your personal caution label)

Rule 8: Sake, the master of deja vu

Although delicious, one can't help but notice the slight taste of toilet water sake tends to have.  Don't let its light taste and smooth ways fool you, you're better than that, and there is a reason for that subtle after taste.  One too many and you'll soon be face down staring at the toilet bowl with that similar aroma around you all over again.

This is all fact. Never question the Irish.
It is no coincidence our country is lacking prominence for FIFA (or any other real sport for that matter)
When we heard world cup we thought you were suppose to drink from it, meanwhile the Jamaicans ar running circles around us lauging their asses off (as they should). But the hell with it, we know how to get a little riddy and we'll give you NO BS. No more question thank you. 

“When the POWER of love overcomes the love of POWER, the world will know peace.” - J.HENDRIX

The era brought about a change in social order. But what do we consider a "normal social order"?  Your mother devotes her life to cooking you a hearty meal every night, making sure the house is spotless inside and out, and enjoying leisurely activities with the other neighborhood mothers.  The men on the other hand, worked full time either for his family business or went off to college to become a doctor, lawyer or businessman.  With the male supporting the family economically he was the head chief of the home, giving oppression to his wife. In the 1940's before World War II, this was the normal social order.

If we want to refer back to our natural state there needs to be a distrubtion of power, whether it is in your life, your household or your work life.  In modern day, we know this as we try to do both and make decisions how to distribute our priorities. For the 1940's it was either one or the other you had to be devoted to, whether it was the home or work.  Thus said, the responsibilities that you take on,  does not give you a higher status over another.  

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Images flooded everywhere of women working to encourage nonworking stay at home mother's to do follow as as  well. Women were  symbolized as caring to the family issues and powerful in the household, but they are fragile to whole world around them. The power of image brought upon a state of awareness to women everywhere that this was their opportunity to see what potential lies within them, and burn the ideology of being referred to as "dumb bitches". Not to mention the rest of the world could use a fresh breath of air from all the testosterone controlling the environment. Finally energy of ideas from mind's they've never heard spoken out before came to life.

'Turcos' Rob Loftus - Nikon D40 - February 5,2006
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Listening to radio gave voice to women in a way they felt it was coming out from their own body. With eyes closed they were amazed and at the world they could see in the future. Eyes open were handed jobs listed with physical requirements, locations, hours and wages.

What I can't understand is why people were surprised by a positive outcome?

Once someone is given the opportunity, the possibilities are endless. America was slapped with a share of useful ideas and growth of creative potential. Prior, if a woman brought the paycheck this would suggest nothing less than the male being a failure as he was unable to provide for his family. Restricting women from work creates a restriciton of growth as their own personal ideas of self and in the world. 

• Work teaches you to find your voice with your own opinion, essentially leadership.
• Interaction with other people, especially  the little bastards you want to call 4$$h0|*m07h3Rf#c|3rZ, as well as those you connect with to network your charisma and strengths
• The enjoyment of work hard and party harder
• And money management skills will soon follow

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& to prevent women from acting like oblivious brats

 

The power of images gave women the opportunity to explore themselves indapendently. Confidence in return emerged from women eveywhere as they added charisma and personality to the business world, now making dirty overalls, or pant suits for the job have sex appeal. 

'Melissa Adret (Model)'

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But not to be confused with this kind of sex appeal:

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The power of images and speech propelled the American woman into the work force.From there a force of idea's and aspirations from women continued to rise, where FEMEN emerged, a Ukrainian protest group that proves sex sells as they alarm the world with the truth about sex tourists, international marriage agencies, sexism and other social, national and international ills . These courageous, confident and seductive ladies stage twenty topless activist backed up with 300 fully clothed members to attract attention.

Not like this, but like so:

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• Finally the world has seen the imagative women who has gotten the world thinking as they are taken away by police in front of St Peter's basilica when holding a placard to ask for freedom for women following Pope Benedicts XVI's Angelus prayer at St Peter’s square at The Vatican.
• painting in colors of the Italian flag on their bare skin to take part in a demonstration against Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi in Rome
• detained by security guards  in front of Kiev Zoo where FEMEN compares the zoo  to a concentration camp for those with fur and feathers.
• Stand infront of parliemnt Police detain Alexandra Shevchenko a member of women’s activist group FEMEN, in front of parliament  to raise the retirement age for women.
• shout protests in front of the Iranian Embassy in Kiev against the death penalty given to Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a mother of two children, who was sentenced to death by stoning in Iran on charges of adultery.

I have always believed there is no better self expression of you're desires and aspirations than what you create, but these ladies have proven me wrong.  They show there is no greater expression of self that what we are. Just as they expose their bare bodies, they expose the horrors they face, truths are revealed out in the open with no distortion of the topic to cover-up. 



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On February 15,1898 the U.S.S. Maine exploded killing 260 American Sailors.  Graphic images of the damage immediately blew through the front pages of  major newspapers leaving readers entertained and startled at the same time. Media sold the distorted story of the Spanish being responsible for the catastophe, and OF COURSE to solve justice & peace, the United States directly landed itself into the Spanish-American War.

Now if we look at the situation rationally we can see the incident was nothing more than an accident.  There was never any direct evidence the caue of the explosion, however every war needs an excuse, and this was ours.  Looking back on the past, the masses should always question the information fueled by mainstream news media, rather than acting like hypnotized dummies assuming everything is fact.

 

'World Trade Center'
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'September 11, 2006 New York City,+NY'
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 On September 11, 2001 we were once again presented with misinformation and sensationalism.   Two American Aircrafts crashed into the World Trade Center and believed the buildings collapse was caused by the  jet impact and  followed by fires throughout, with Muslim mastermind's behind the whole scandal. That illusion became our reality, but lets shed light on this rationally. How does a sophisticated air defence (which has been known to respond to emergencies) allow a plane to wander for an hour and half with no suspicion or questions asked?  How can the steel and titanium componenets of the aircraft that hit the Pentagon magically EVAPORATE?  Finally, how is it a structural steel buidling, that never in HISTORY collapsed due to fire,  fall  so neatly at the speed of gravity, while the concrete was reduced to dust? 

Jet fuel (kerosene) can't reach tempatures to melt steel. Pictures show a little volume of a flame, but a significant amount of molten oozing out the side of the builidng.  Molten steel and concrete were found all around Ground Zero, leading the accusation that Thermine, and exotic accelerant was used.  When this question arose, N.I.S.T immediatly refused to test for accelerants, even if this was the first time a building collapsed by fire.  Their reason being,  kerosene is incapable of poducing molten, therefore, there could've been any molten at Ground Zero, therefore we are all imagining this and there is no need for further research.  If, the explosions we caused was actually by jet fuel air, the tapes would've recorded widespread of burning, scortching and blistering throughout the building.   Instead evidence it's very clear there was a raid rate of pressure rise, and that is what caused shattering of walls, roofs, structural members, continued by the building being demolitshed.  Therefore, it must of been DEMOLITION itself to allow the structures to blow up and fall the way they did.

It is our own public officals who brought this distruction, hayhem and outcry upon us, in order for WORLD DOMINATION, economically & militarilly. They once again needed to preserve American miliatry dominance for the further generations to come.  Now we have hero's such as Pat Tillman to get our country inspired. It certainly isn't a concidence that eight days after the attack the Patriot Act was handed to congress, followe by a week of anthrax which cleared  officeds to be examined, and next thing you know, it becomes a law.  Now the Bush administraiton gains access to people's medical records, tax records and can conduct secret residential serches without notifying owners.

Meanwhile, executives from BP, Shell & Exon met with Dick Cheney's Energy task forced & admitted interest in profiting from Iraq oil feilds.  Blaming Muslims for the attacks was a gateway for our country to invade Iraq in order to profit from their land.

Years later and no one is benefiting from the disaster the United States Goverment has created.   What is even more wrong is denying anyone access to the REALITY of science, law and our nature to live as citizens serves neither the individuals or society as a whole.