How Does Mtv Affect Young Minds

MTV is one of the most popular T.V stations among teenagers. Along with being one of the most popular, MTV is also one of the most influential. When it comes to teenagers, our minds are like clay, waiting to be shaped and molded into more advance adult like minds. When you put together an extremely popular and influential T.V station, and a teenage mind, you tend to have an effect of some sort. The effect of MTV on young minds is like the power a dictator holds over his people. Its starting a craze among many, changing the way you think, or corrupting the only purity or innocence you had left. MTV has all sorts of effects on different people. Although the effect MTV has on us is relatively negative there are also some positive effects such as rock the vote introduced in 1990 to encourage everybody to vote in our presidential elections, reassuring the fact that each vote counts. By celebrities’
Whenever you think of mind alteration nobody really gets the mental image of a teenager mindlessly watching an episode of MTV’s “Jersey Shore”. This brings me to another of one of MTV’s effects, changing the way you think. MTV introduced a crazy cast of loud young Italians with the ultimate “Guido” lifestyle and put them in a house on the Jersey Shore with a 24-hour film crew. Who would have thought a year later and you have one of the most popular and most talked about reality show on T.V. Having a different girl over every night to “smush”, drinking excessively every day, and cheating or lying to someone you supposedly “love” are just some of the events that happen on this moral lacking show. No matter how much someone says watching this show doesn’t change them or their beliefs. By watching the show your condoning all the behavior that’s occurring. Over time MTV is slowly corrupting the way we think. Making everything we watch seem expectable, when we believe the