-Respond to the following passage: "They're also waiting to make you want things. Everything we've grown up to with...it's all streamlining our personalities so we're easier to sell to...they do these demographic studies that divide everyone up into a few personality types, and then you get ads based on what you're supposedly like. They try to figure out who you are, and to make you conform to one of their types for easy marketing" (p.80-81). Relate this to marketing tactics in today's society. What is your "type?" What ads would you get if you had feed?" How often would you "chat" if you had the "feed?" How would "chatting" affect modern-day communications?
How this relates to marketing tactics today is that they try and appeal to everyone and anyone who they can get to buy their products that they are selling. I would say my type has got to be either really sporty or plain and simple. The ads I would get if I had feed would be the most latest music releases along with the newest trends and styles. To be honest, if I did have feed; I would "chat" about most of my day till I get tired out. How "chatting" would affect modern-day communications is if everyone were to make "chatting" a habit then talking face to face in person wouldn't be normal anymore. Everyone would be so used to "chatting" through their feed instead of face to face that interacting in reality would be so hard just to do.
-Respond to Titus' reaction to his parents buying him an upcar (p.96-97)
Titus' reaction to his parents buying him an upcar made him forget about everything completely that's been bothering him in that very point in time. He was very happy and excited to take Violet out once he had got his car. In my opinion, If my parents told me that they were going to buy me a car, I would also feel that same happiness that Titus did; instead I don't have a permit or license actually. This is Titus' reaction, "Oh, god!" "Oh, god! Oh, Mom- Dad-this is-oh, shit! Holy shit! Are you kidding! Your the best mom and dad ever!" (p.118) Titus was completely speechless, and that is my evidence for saying at the time he thought of none of his worries but the car that he would be getting from his parents... because they believe he was brave and have been going through such hard times.
-In a consumeristic society, once things have outlived their usefulness, they tend to be discarded. How might this attitude affect the way people interact with one another? How might it affect the way they think of the past?
How might this attitude affect the way people interact with one another is that being in a relationship wouldn't mean as much anymore as it did in the past. Soon enough, relastionships will just come and go because of the way they interact. How it may affect the way they think of the past is that whatever becomes useless will be discarded and just left behind in the past because people start to believe there is no reason keeping old ways in the past because of new ways to interact, to think, to do in a regular basis.
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