Listen to me! (Sorry this one's late too, Hjelmgren)

"It's a shame that the people who are listening to you the most are only interested in you because they want you and your peers to buy their product."

I guess that statement is kind of sad and true, but I never considered those ad companies people that I wanted to talk to. I don't think teens are running around so desperate to spread their message that they'll speak with a rep from some sort of ad agency only to find out that the only reason the rep listened was for the sake of being able to sell the product better. It'd matter more if they were the only people willing to listen, but I don't think that teens think of ad companies as a way to be heard, or that they even associate ad companies with it, so it isn't such a huge deal for teens. On a different level, it is sad that ad companies are the ones listening to teens the most--however I don't know that that's true. I think they try to listen, but ultimately they only listen until they find something marketable, so the listening only lasts as long as the product placement.