How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph) or (Feed Chatter #.Paragraph)
Quote #4
Quendy and Loga went off to the bathroom because hairstyles had changed. (4.5)
This is one of the more cutting moments of satire in Feed, and Anderson comes back to it a few time: fashions and styles in Titus's world come and go more quickly than the popularity of the Harlem Shake in ours.
Quote #5
We got there and it had been torn down. They had built a pretty nice stucco mall there, so Loga and Quendy said we should go in and buy some cool stuff to go out in. That seemed good to us. I wanted to buy some things but I didn't know what they were [...] Quendy bought some shoes, but the minute she walked out of the store she didn't like them anymore. Marty couldn't think of anything he wanted, so he ordered this really null shirt. He said it was so null it was like ordering nothing. (5.11)
These kids are so thoroughly manipulated by the media that they don't even know what they want. They just know they need to buy something. Ultimately, even buying things becomes unsatisfying, sort of like eating an entire bag of Doritos.
Quote #6
But the braggest thing about the feed, the thing that made it really big, is that it knows everything you want and hope for, sometimes before you even know what those things are. It can tell you how to get them, and help you make buying decisions that are hard. Everything we think and feel is taken in by the corporations, mainly by data ones like Feedlink and OnFeed and American Feedware, and they make a special profile, one that's keyed just to you, and then they give it to their branch companies, or other companies buy them, and they can get to know what it is we need, so all you have to do is want something and there's a chance it will be yours. (10.5)
To Titus, the best thing about the feed is that it creates demographic profiles and helping people to "make buying decisions that are hard." Yikes. That makes us feel a little nervous about Amazon's recommendations.