Before attending Brooke Gladstone’s talk, I was very excited to hear her speak because I read her book “The Influencing Machine” during my freshman year at Lafayette in FAMS 101. Although it has been quite a while since reading her book, I do remember the impact she had on me as a first year FAMS student, and I was very excited to hear her speak about what she is so passionate about. Throughout her talk, she made some very solid points: she spoke a lot about fake news and how it is able to control people’s minds. She also touched on how people should not get their news from Facebook. I found this point extremely interesting because I do indeed get some of my news from Facebook. It’s easy for anyone to go on the app and just scroll through the billions of posts a day. She not only said that Facebook is taking over, but technology is. What I also found interesting is the fact that she told us to delete one app a day. Although I do not completely agree with this, I did find it interesting because more apps are being created every day, and some of them can be very beneficial to a person’s life. I especially enjoyed when Brooke spoke about the power of radio and how powerful a human voice is. I cohost a radio show on WJRH, and I really appreciated how she talked about her life in radio and how it had such a great impact on her life. Overall, I really enjoyed her talk, and it was so nice to match a book I read in class’ author to a face!
