Well, judging from the comments, it doesn't look like anyone actually read the article. It's a shame, too, because it was about how inundated the public has become with useless trends and ***** memes through the media and social networking and how it tweaks our reality invariably.It sucks because this is the world we've created. You can turn it off but you almost have to turn off everything...TV, internet social networking, Digg, etc. Just think how much space ***** like Kanye West and balloon boy are occupying in your mind when real news mostly gets all dissolved in the ***** if it gets reported at all these days.No wonder people can't figure out the truth from the lies from the half-truths in the media. Networks feed people the ***** they want in order to get an audience. Instead of giving them the truth and the facts, it's spoon fed to them with Lady Gaga and Kanye and Balloon Boy...the U.S. is NOT a country known for it's intelligent public...they cannot discern facts from fiction from useless *****. And thus, we go on...the media is a blender mixing the ***** with the cream and we're all drinking it up.