Reading Response to Feed

           Technology abuse and addiction is a huge social issue that is becoming more and more of a problem. The book Feed by M.T. Anderson focuses on this issue by showing how life is in a far yet near future all by the point of view of a teenager. This book is mostly about this new invention called the Feed. The Feed is basically a smart phone built into your, it is part of your brain. Technology addiction and involvement in human life is taking to another level in this book to make a point and show what can happen if human kind continues this way.

            I think that with this book, Anderson wanted to show and make us realize what to show and make us realize what our world is turning into. He shows us a world where you are being almost harassed with technology. I think he wants to warn us in some way by giving us an example of a realistic scenario of a technology-oriented world. One way he makes this book realistic the way he writes it, the style. Since it is all from the point of view of a teen, Anderson makes up slang for these teens by either making up some words or by using other existing words and giving them a different meaning. Some of the slang these teens use are words like: “unit”, which translates into dude or man, “mal” or “going into mal”, which is basically some king of drug-like thing, and “meg”, which means very or a lot. Also, in this world school is School™ and clouds are Clouds™ which shows how in this world even natural things or place have a trade mark. All this was done to and to the realism of it all.

            This whole book in the end makes you think about how it all relates to the social issue technology we have today and how it is affecting us. This book made me really reflect and think about what might and can happen in the future.