Dominant Messages in Folk Culture

Folk culture is a culture passed on through word of mouth or through your family and friends, these messages are "pure" and haven't gone through the corrupted filter of the corporations.  These messages on how to live a god and meaningful life will come from your family and friends.  Folk culture itself was mainly passed on by word of mouth, but is now spreading rapidly with the internet and thanks to message boards, forums and sites like Myspace, Facebook and other profile sites folk culture has been able to spread throughout the country faster.

"How to become the Perfect Boyfriend"  is a video about just that.  They explain several ways that a man can have a better relationship with his girlfriend.  These include things like listening to them, being supportive of them etc.  The main message was fairly obvious, that we all need to be in a relationship, they didn't say you had an option in dating, according to the video we all need people to rely on and partners to make our lives good an meaningful.  The video emphasized connection between people in relationships and showed that a meaningful relationship is worth working for.  The video conveys a good and meaningful life as one with a significant other whom you have a good connection with and enjoy being around.

"How to Avoid Wasting Time on Facebook"  is a tutorial on how to make Facebook time more productive, the video says that you must quit all of the meaningless applications and ignore requests for those applications.  The video's message was to evaluate what was productive and what wasn't.  It implied that a meaningful life comes from efficiency and avoiding becoming a slave to the internet or becoming a slave to meaningless things.  The video also subtly emphasized that connections with real people were more meaningful than useless applications on Facebook.