Which magazines do you read? Draw a demographic profile of yourself based only on the magazines you regularly read.

I think we can all come to a common agreement that now a days, everything is based upon advertisement. Ones advertisement always reaches out to a certain group of people ranging from their age, to their race/culture to ones personal activities. Depending on our interests, is what determines what we choose to read, and is what determines our own, personal, demographic.

Considering I've followed fashion my whole life is what drew me to read Vogue. Vogue's magazine is based upon readers who indulge in the latest fashion and current designers. My demographic to this magazine is indeed the fact that I am a female. Vogue's intention isn't primarily based directly towards women, however women override mens subscription with eighty-eighty percent. My age as well fits in with their demographics, Vogue focuses mainly to women from the ages of nineteen to forty-nine. Vogue reaches out to women like me who love to read about fashion, trends, fashion shows, best dressed, because they know it sells, they know we are at the age where we are trying to find our own personal fashion and possibly a future career in the business.

Following fashion only leads to gossip which leads to my next favorite magazine, Cosmopolitan! I love reading about style, beauty, and gossip. Cosmopolitan offers fun tips, dating advice, stories about relationships, basically everything I like for a fun read. All of these aspects of the magazine is how I fit into their demographic of the basic person they intend for. Age also draws me into their demographics, majority of their readers range from eighteen years of age to thirty -four, and majority are women as well. Cosmo mainly reaches out to people my age because they know a lot of us are into the whole Hollywood scene and are interested in what the celebrities are up to, their latest break ups , and get togethers, the fashion, and they know we will subscribe and buy their magazines. Cosmo has also added another addition called Cosmo Girl which is specifically drawn towards a younger audience and that isn't so explicit as Cosmopolitan is.

Being a nineteen year old women draws me into a lot of demographics for magazines, but also throws me out of the window for a lot more. In the end its all about advertisement and where you fit in when it comes to it.

Are you proud of your book-reading habits? Why or why not?

As a prior book worm, I can't say that I am proud of my book-reading habits as of this point in time. A couple of years back I was an avid reader, I would read all day long. I was never really picky on the choice of books, but Harry Potter was a big favorite of mine, so every time a new one came out, I would be in line to buy it. Depending on the schedule of my day at that time, if I didnt have any plans I would just read all day until I fell asleep,so it wouldn't take me too long to finish a book, maybe one week, two at the most.


During the course of high school is when I just stopped reading in general. I got very lazy, and even the books in class that we were suppose to read I slacked off and basically just skimmed through it. Now entering college I realized again how big of a deal reading actually is and how I need to start back up again because the hours of television watched rather than reading really makes a difference come study time, and in my opinion ones intelligence.


Over the last couple of years my reading habits have been maybe three books a year at the most, IF even that. The time frame however is a different story, it probably took me months to finish it just because I always found some way out of reading.


One of my favorite authors is, J.K Rowling, because the fact that I am a strong Christian, and don't believe in magic but yet she was still able to captivate my attention, and made me want to go buy her other books really impressed me. Other than Rowling, I dont have a major favorite author. I prefer books based on a true story of a person like the book "A child called it." That was amazing to read, and he also wrote another one following that book about his life now that I read as well. I could probably tell you all of the events that happened in the book, but what I couldn't tell you is his name. In my preference, I don't really pay attention to the authors. When I read a book a lot of times it is referred to me, or I come across it some how, but if you were to ask me half of the books I read and the authors name, I honestly wouldnt be able to tell you.