Who's to blame?

So I changed my topic completely. I unfortunately wasn't able to find much on my previous topic, and it was hard to directly relate it to popular culture. I decided to change my topic to focus on the increase of obesity within the United States. Being over weight or obese seems to still be a topic within popular culture, and I believe that a lot of it has to do with the way our society has become due to things that have risen up because of pop culture. For example, people stay inside, or may have lease physical activity due to the increase in technology, allowing it to be easier to just sit around. Another aspect is how face-past our society has become, and its desire for conveniency. There are more single parent families with less time to make dinner, parents are working more to help their families stay afloat, healthy food is expensive while junk food is cheaper, the way fast food is advertised to us on a regular basis, and how available these types of food are available to us. With all these changes in our culture, it's affecting our health.

I'm trying to figure out how to narrow my research question, but's its hard because I wanted to look at how our culture is changing which is a main cause of increase to our "weight problem." Since I want to cover children and adult obesity and all of the factors of why our weight is increasing, I wanted to ask the question "Who is to blame for the sudden increase of obesity in the United States?" Is it parents? Ourselves? The government? Fast food companies? The food industry? Who is to blame for this?
I personally think that it's everyones fault. We as a society are always on the go. We busy ourselves so much that we don't make time, or make it important to cook a balanced meal and sit down to not just eat it, but enjoy it. The fact that junk food is EVERYWHERE doesn't help. It's so easy for us to access. Healthy food is more expensive than junk food, I wish it could switch, however, it is cheaper to make junk food to begin with (I think this says a lot about the quality of it.) Overall I have found some interesting information on all of this.

Filters by Artists

What sets apart Instagram and Facebook? Yes they are both considered social networking sites, but I don't think this means that they have to be defined and classified under the same umbrella of an idea of what a social network is. Facebook asks you to provide more details than Instagram, for example, you can post things, like pages, it asks your school information etc. Facebook is designed for you to contact others that you see either regularly or that you haven't seen in a long time. Regardless, talking is the main point of Facebook. Sure you can share and look at photos on Facebook, but it's mainly designed for conversation. In saying that, Instagram is completely different. You create a profile, which doesn't have to be that personal, and you post pictures. You are able to like and comment on photos, but that isn't the purpose of Instagram. The co-founder of Instagram, Kevin Systrom says this "We decided that if we were going to build a company, we wanted to focus on being really good at one thing." Later he talks about having t make adjustments to the app and says "What remained was Instagram. (We renamed because we felt it better captured what you were doing — an instant telegram of sorts. It also sounded camera-y)." This backs up the idea of why instagram was created and what i's purpose was intended for. 

I don't think that Instagram is designed specifically for ONLY friends and family. In fact I personally hardly have any family members on instagram. I also think that because of this, a lot of kids post more "party" pictures and things like that on instagram because their parents and family pmembers are less likely to see it due to the lack of personal information that instagram desn't require you to provide. Users are able to create a user name that is irrelevant to their actual name. You can, in a sense, create your own fantasy, or just simply show your life through photographs.On Facebook, people can post on your wall, where as on instagram you have sole control.

Artist can filter the things on their Instagram. They can even have a them to their photos. These pictures posted on instagram could be posted on Facebook but they aren't. Why is this?

Teens and college aged students use instagram the most because I believe they have more time to actually be on the site/app and have more time to edit photos.

An interesting belief/values that this brings up in what people post is that people aren't living in the moment anymore. They are just trying to capture the moment. It's now "look what I did" instead of "let me TELL you what i did."

Instagram is designed not just to have friends, but to have access to create an online presence for themselves (users), without having very expensive equipment for the photographs they post.

Facebook is a lot of telling and showing.

Instagram allows you to portray what you want people to see than what you really are.

There is also the example of the actual Instagram page that Instagram has and the pictures they post. The whole movement of hashtags is very powerful also. It;s a way for people to link their photos to others and to words.

Sorry this is so choppy, but these are the ideas and things that I would like to cover in the essay. I don't think that Intsagram is like all other social networking sites. I think some people might treat it in that way, but I don't believe that the majority of people treat it that way. I think Instagram is more "artsy" if you will. It's more of a show than a tell.