Blog #2

#4) This way of marketing is very similar to our current tactics for advertising because we categorize fashion into different styles, and target certain individuals for these styles. The only difference is that instead of company’s categorizing us individuals into groups, then sending us advertisements of things that we would like to buy, straight into our heads. If I was to be categorized into a type, or group, I guess it would the kind of “preppy” group or something similar to that cause I do like preppy kind of clothes.

(Last One) When the author dedicates this book to those who resist the feed, I believe that he is saying that he is dedicating this book to those who resist the normal, consumerism, or anything else that would make them be like everyone else. In the sense, the feed is big companies that dominate our lives and kind of makes us depend on them, and this can be resisted by refusing to buy products from big companies or many other ways that seem fit or just. The benefits of doing this is that many other small businesses will gain more reputation and money, but the drawbacks will be that many big store companies will make things cheaper to compete with small businesses, therefore by chance, will make many of the small business supporters go to those big companies for cheaper prices. I don't think that i resist the feed at all because I like to buy name-brand clothing and i also like to buy cheaper stuffs. Also, I don't do much to help stop consumerism as it is.

(9th from the bottom) I think that the author had the father in this story use the "slang like-words" to kind of show that the father and son/family relationship has changed in the future since the "Feed" was added, therefore causing a kind of weird relationship, where we know the father is a father, but he is more like a normal man, or even a teenager to his kids so that they can relate to him. The author might have added the use of those slang words to also represent that the feed-like future is near because we still use quite a few of these slang words in our time and place.